Exam 4: Socialization, Interaction, and the Self

Victor of Aveyron was a feral child who wandered out of the woods in 1800 when he was approximately twelve years old. After being reintroduced to human society, Victor was incapable of talking and never fully adjusted to life with other humans. This case shows the importance of

What did Harvard Medical School researchers conclude about the effects of the media on young people in Fiji who, until the 1990s, lacked widespread access to television?

Sigmund Freud, Charles Cooley, and George Herbert Mead all contributed to the study of the self.

A person who leaves their job of twenty years to retire is undergoing

Some theorists have suggested that all individuals act like mirrors to each other. What do sociologists call this concept?

What do the several cases of children who grew up in extreme social isolation, such as the case of Genie in 1970, suggest?

Role conflict occurs when an individual has

Before we can experience role-taking emotions, we must

Sociologists define the self as

The satirical newspaper The Onion once ran a story with the headline "Man Reading Pynchon on Bus Takes Pains to Make Cover Visible." The story went on to describe a bus passenger who was reading a book by the critically acclaimed, but difficult and confusing, author Thomas Pynchon. Instead of holding the book on his lap, he held it directly in front of his face so that the cover was visible to everyone and occasionally glanced around to see if anyone noticed. What would Erving Goffman say about this?