Vocabulary Chapter 4

Front 1

the process of learning to participate in a group

Back 1

socialization

Front 2

an image of yourself as having an identity separate from other people

Back 2

self concept

Front 3

an image of yourself based on what you believe others think of you

Back 3

looking glass self

Front 4

those people whos reaction is most important to your self concept

Back 4

significant others

Front 5

assuming the view point of another person and using that view point to shape the self concept

Back 5

roll taking

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george mead's first stage in the development of role taking; children begin to imitate behaviors without knowing why

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imitation stage

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Mead's second stage in the development of role taking; children act in ways they imagine other people would

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play stage

Front 8

Mead's third stage in the development of role taking; children anticipate the actions of others based on social rules

Back 8

game stage

Front 9

integrated conception of the norms, values, and beliefs of ones community or society

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generalized other

Front 10

part of the self formed through socialization

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me

Front 11

part of the self that accounts for unlearned, spontaneous acts

Back 11

i

Front 12

the informal and unofficial aspects of culture that children are taught in school

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hidden curriculum

Front 13

a set of individuals of roughly the same age and interests

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peer group

Front 14

a communication designed to reach the general population

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mass media

Front 15

places in which people are separated from the rest of society and controlled by officials in charge

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total institutions