Exam 3: Socialization: From Infancy to Old Age

An idea in Freud's thinking that has special importance to sociology is his assertion that

Mead's theory of the self is based on the interaction between "nature and nurture".

George Herbert Mead described how our impressions of other people form the basis of a“looking glass self.”

In historical perspective, the importance of the mass media to the socialization process has

In Freud's model of personality, which element of the personality represents a person's efforts to balance innate pleasure-seeking drives and the demands of society?

According to George Herbert Mead, children learn to "take the role of the other" as they model themselves on important people in their lives, such as parents. Mead referred to these important people as

In the nature versus nurture debate sociologist claim that

As the proportion of the population in old age increases, we can expect U.S. culture to become more comfortable with the reality of death.

The social sciences, including sociology, support the claim that

Even years of social isolation in infancy may not cause permanent and irreversible developmental damage.

Mead considered the "generalized other" to be

In terms of human freedom, the chapter on socialization leads to the conclusion that

Thinking about how patterns of child-rearing vary by class, lower-class parents generally stress____________ , while well-to-do parents typically stress___________ .