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22 Cards in this Set
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Socialization |
the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture |
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Personality |
a person's fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling
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Id |
Freud's term for the human being's basic drives
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Ego |
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 |
Freud's term for the cultural values and norms internalized b an individual |
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Sensorimotor Stage |
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 |
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 |
Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals first see causal connections in their surroundings |
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Formal Operational Stage |
Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals think abstractly and critically |
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Self |
George Herbert Mead's term for the part of an individual's personality composed of self-awareness and self-image |
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Looking-Glass Self |
Cooley's term for a self-image based on how we think others see us |
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Significant Others |
people, such as parents, who have special importance for socialization |
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Generalized Other |
George Herbert Mead's term for widespread cultural norms and values we use as references in evaluating ourselves |
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Peer Group |
a social group whose members have interests, social position, and age in common |
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Anticipatory Socialization |
learning that helps a person achieve a desired position |
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Mass Media |
the means for delivering impersonal communications to a vast audience |
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Gerontology |
the study of aging and the elderly |
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Gerontocracy |
a form of social organization in which the elderly have the most wealth, power, and prestige |
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Ageism |
prejudice and discrimination against older people |
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Cohort |
a category of people with something in common, usually their age |
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Total Institution |
a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society and manipulated by an administrative staff |
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Resocialization |
radically changing an inmate's personalty by carefully controlling the environment |