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The lifelong process of social interaction through which individuals acquire a self identity and the physical, mental, and social skills required for survival in society. |
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Why is socialization important? |
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-Teaches us ways to think, talk, and act that are necessary for social living -Ensures that members of society are socialized the existing social structure -Allows society to pass culture on to the next generation. |
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The systematic study of how biology affects social behavior |
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-The key to social action is acting with others in mind -Social action is intentional action. I think of others as I act. -Leads to Social Patterns |
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-Social interaction leads to social patterns -The basis for all social organization -We develop Relationships -Lead to social organizations |
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Five forms of Social Organizations |
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-Dyads -Groups -Formal Organizations -Communities -Societies |
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Social Organization (def) |
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-Organization is made possible because individuals accept the patterns as guides to their thinking and acting -Facilitates social control |
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-Friends -Lovers -Doctor/Pateient -Mother/son -Husband/Wife |
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Groups (def and examples) |
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-Three or more individuals -Family -Company softball team -Bible study |
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Who pioneered Sociobiology? |
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-An individuals basic biologicaldrives that need instant gratification. -"Animal" |
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-Rational, reality oriented component of personality that imposes restrictions on id -Balance |
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-Conscience consisting of the moral and ethical aspects of personality. -Social Control |
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Freud's theory of human development |
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The id, ego, and superego |
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-each stage of development is accompanied by a crisis that involves transitions in social relationships. -8 stages |
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Piaget's stages of cognitive development |
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-Sensory motor stage (birth to age 2) -preoperational stage/ages 2 to 7 (children begin to use words as symbols and form mental images -Concrete operational stage (7 to 11/Children think in terms of tangible objects and events) -Formal operational stage (12 and up/adolescents begin to think about the future and course of action) |
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Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning |
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-Preconventional level-based on punishment and obedience -Conventional level/people are concerned about how they are perceived by peers and how one conforms to rules -Postconventional level/Few adults reach this stage. View morality in terms of individual rights. moral principles based on human rights vs. government and laws |
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