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30 Cards in this Set
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Agents of Socialization
Where does your primary Socialization take place? |
through family
other agents: school, peer groups, media |
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Self-Socialization
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choosing socialization influences from the wide variety of mass media offerings
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Anticipatory Socialization
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before it even happens, you take on the characteristics
ex: frat or sorority interviews |
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Initiation Rite
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formal ritual that signifies a transition in someone's social status
ex: hazing |
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Goffman's concept of Stigma
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powerfully negative label.
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Total Institutions
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mental institution
prision cult military monastery |
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Purpose of the resocialization process: "mortification of the self?"
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turning someone into something else "death of self"
military |
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Garfinkel's Concept of Degradation Ceremony.
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public initiation rite when we declare people publically of changed status
ex: marriage |
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Id
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basic pleasure drives (ex: infants)
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Ego
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reasoning self. negotiates between ID and superego
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Superego
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internalized voice of our culture (society conscience)
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Jean Piaget
aspect of human development studied |
cognition - how children learn to think
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Kohlberg
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stages of moral reasoning
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criticism of developmental theories like Piaget's and Kohlberg's
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universalizing
leaves out cultural variation not all people go through all stages |
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George Herbert Mead's tehory of self
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everything is social
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four stages in Mead's theory of the self?
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1.imitate significant others
2. Playing - take on roles of others 3. play games - must understand multiple role of others 4. general notions of others - internalized (what to wear to certain places |
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Domination
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when all power is concetrated in a certain status
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Thomas Theorem
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situations defined as real are real in their consequences
no objective truths, only what society takes to be so? |
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Status
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who we are in society, any social position occupied
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Status Set
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list of who you are
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Status Cue
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visual indicator of our statuses
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Ascribed Status
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born with or against your will
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Achieved Status
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traits that you acquire? depends on capabilities and efforts of the individual
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Master Statuses
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important for personality identity, what others deem you
ex: we view pintar as the self |
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Role
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behavior of someone who holds a status, culturally specific
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Role Set
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all roles associated with single status
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Role Strain
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trying to balance different roles you have to do
ex: study for chem or go to fundraiser |
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Role Conflict
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conflict between statuses
ex: friend is christian. go to bar or church? |
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Role Exit
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ex of a status
ex: ex-girlfriend ex-conflict high school dropout widow |
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Mead's theory of the self?
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1. imitate significant others
2. playing - take on roles of others 3. play games - must understand multiple roles of others (ex: baseball) 4. general notions of others - internalized (ex: what to wear to certain place) |
