Exam 4: Socialization, Interaction, and the Self

A sociologist observes that kindergartners are not just being taught about arts and crafts. They are also being taught how to be students, including skills such as following rules, remaining in their seats, and other things that will be necessary for the rest of their education. What are these skills called?

Louwanda Evans's book on emotional labor and flight attendants adds which dimension to Arlie Hochschild's original conception of emotional labor?

Churches usually teach their members rules and often codify these rules into formal commandments to be followed. Given this, churches can be considered

Changes in the importance of socialization's different agents might occur over time within a society. Identify the major agent(s) of socialization that is/are less important to adolescents now than in the late 1800s.

Children are taking on the role of the generalized other when they pretend to be a firefighter, mother, or doctor.

Recent research by marine biologists suggests that bottlenose dolphins have names for themselves. Scientists played sounds they had identified as the names of particular dolphins by putting them through a synthesizer so that they did not sound like the voices of particular dolphins. The researchers found that dolphins would respond to the names of other dolphins to which they were related or with which they were associated, but they ignored the names of strangers. This discovery suggests a much greater degree of self-awareness in aquatic mammals than was previously suspected. What does this research suggest about dolphins if it is accurate?

The story about the young girls with eating disorders in Fiji in the late 1990s conveys the strong influence of which agent of socialization?

According to the symbolic interactionist George Herbert Mead, the generalized other is

Cases in which children have been raised in social isolation demonstrate that people require socialization to fully develop into fully functioning human beings. In the case of Genie, describe how isolation affected her development.

Sigmund Freud once said that the id was like a wild horse and that the ________ was like a rider astride the horse struggling to keep it under control.

Which part of the mind would Freud have described as being like a type of conscience that punishes misbehavior with feelings of guilt?

Describe the process of impression management as defined by Erving Goffman.

Describe how the four major agents of socialization have shaped your life experiences.

According to George Herbert Mead, what are children learning when they begin to take the perspective of a generalized other in their games?

What did Sigmund Freud suggest in his book The Interpretation of Dreams?

Young army recruits arriving at boot camp are about to enter a(n)

Stereotyping involves judging others based on their character and past behaviors.

When a child can internalize the expectations of other specific people, they have learned how to

One morning, James must decide between being on time for work and helping his child with a homework assignment. What is James experiencing?

The term "master status" is defined as a