Sociology Chapter 5

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Socialization

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is the lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn culture.

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Personality

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refers to a person's fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling.

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Id

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is Freud's term for the human being's basic drives.

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Ego

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is Freud's term for a person's conscious efforts to balance innate pleasure-seeking drives with the demands of society.

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Superego

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is Freud's term for the cultural values and norms internalized by an individual.

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Sensorimotor stage

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is Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals experience the world only through their senses.

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Preoperational stage

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is Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals first use language and other symbols.

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Concrete operational stage

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is Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals first perceive causal connections in their surroundings.

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Formal operational stage

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is Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals think abstractly and critically.

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Self

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is George Herbert Mead's term for that part of an individual's personality composed of self-awareness and self-image.

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Looking-glass self

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is Cooley's term for a self-image based on how we think others see us.

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Generalized other

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is George Herbert Mead's term for widespread cultural norms and values we use as a reference in evaluating ourselves.

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Peer group

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is a social group whose members have interests, social position, and age in common.

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Anticipatory socialization

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is learning that helps a person achieve a desired position.

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Mass media

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are impersonal communications aimed at a vast audience.

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Cohort

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is a category of people with common characteristics, usually their age.

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Total institution

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is a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society and manipulated by an administrative staff.

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Resocialization

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refers to radically changing an inmate's personality by carefully controlling the environment.

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Significant others

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are people, such as parents, who have special importance for socialization.