Exam 4: Socialization,Interaction,and the Self

What is the looking-glass self?

Which of the following is not an example of an altered life circumstance that will require a significant degree of resocialization?

Young army recruits arriving at boot camp are about to enter which of the following?

Churches usually teach their members rules,often codifying these rules into formal commandments to be followed.Because of this,churches can be called:

According to George Herbert Mead,how does the self develop? Which important developmental markers or milestones does he highlight? Give examples.

Why does the family have such a powerful impact as an agent of socialization?

In the psychoanalytic theory developed by Sigmund freud,which part of our mind is responsible for representing culture within us and serving as the moral component of our personality?

According to Erving Goffman,people define situations interactionally through expressions of behavior,which are the tools we use to project our definition of a situation to one another.Explain what Goffman means by expressions given and expressions given off.

According to the sociological explanation of emotions,which of the following statements about grief is true?

Describe how television can be a powerful and covert agent of socialization.

What happens to the development of feral children who are raised without significant social contact? What does this demonstrate about the importance of socialization?

Parents often buy their children gender-specific toys.Boys get action figures that encourage active and aggressive play;girls get dolls and toy ovens that encourage domesticity.This is part of what process?

Some researchers have argued that in highly individualistic cultures,such as that of the United States,the emotion of shame is usually triggered by individual actions,whereas in more collectivist cultures,like Japan's,shame is linked to groups.This would seem to indicate that:

Appearance,manner,style of dress,race,gender,and age are all elements of:

The term "socialization" refers to:

What is the relationship between Sister Pauline Quinn's program,in which prison inmates train service and therapy dogs,and sociological concepts of the self and of interaction?

A female police officer who struggles with commanding respect from male colleagues while also presenting herself in traditionally feminine ways may be experiencing:

Susie isn't old enough to go to school yet,but she loves to play house.She has a toy stove and she pretends to be a mother.Sometimes,when that gets boring,she goes outside,takes a garden hose,and pretends to be a firefighter.George Herbert Mead would say that Susie is:

Research on teen smoking and other deviant behaviors has found that the most important factor in statistically predicting whether a teen will take up a particular deviant behavior is the presence or absence of peers who also engage in that behavior.This is probably because the other teens are acting:

One of the most striking contrasts in restaurants is between the demeanor of cooks and that of servers.Servers are paid to be nice,pleasant,and courteous.Cooks,on the other hand,are usually not required to act this way.The part of a server's job that does not apply to a cook is called: