Week 4 - Socialization

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Socialization

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the process by which individuals internalize the values beliefs and norms of a given society and learn to function as members of that society.

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Self

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the individual identity of a person as perceived by that same person.

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I

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one's sense of agency action or power.

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Me

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the self as perceived as an object by the 'I'; as the self as one imagines others perceive one.

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Other

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someone or something outside of oneself.

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Generalized other

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an internalized sense of the total expectations of others in a variety of settings -- regardless of whether we've encountered those people or places before.

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Resocialization

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the process by which one's sense of social values beliefs and norms are reengineered often deliberately through an intense social process that may take place in a total institution.

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Total institution

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an institution in which one is totally immersed and that controls all the basics of day-to-day life; no barriers exist between the usual spheres of daily life and all activity occurs in the same place and under the same single authority.

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Status

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a recognizable social position that an individual occupies.

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Role

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the duties and behaviors expected of someone who holds a particular status.

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Role strain

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the incompatibility among roles corresponding to a single status.

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Role conflict

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the tension caused by competing demands between two or more roles pertaining to different statuses.

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Status set

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all the statuses one holds simultaneously.

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Ascribed status

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a status into which one is born; involuntary status.

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Achieved status

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a status into which one enters; voluntary status.

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Master status

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one status within a set that stands out or overrides all others.

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Gender roles

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sets of behavioral norms assumed to accompany one's status as a male or female.

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Symbolic interactionism

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a micro-level theory in which shared meanings orientations and assumptions form the basic motivations behind people's actions.

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Dramaturgical theory

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the view of social life as essentially a theatrical performance in which we are all actors on metaphorical stages with roles scripts costumes and sets.

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Face

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the esteem in which an individual is held by others.

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Ethnomethodology

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literally 'the methods of the people' this approach to studying human interaction focuses on the ways in which we make sense of our world convey this understanding to others and produce a shared social order.