Exam 4: Socialization,Interaction,and the Self

A traffic cop pulls over a speeder only to discover that the driver is a close friend.The police officer is torn because her professional obligations demand that she punish the speeder,but her personal obligations suggest that she should give a friend a break.This is an example of

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

Imagine a child who consistently gets mediocre grades and is often picked last for team games.He likes to make silly jokes and play pranks and he notices that people laugh when he does so.The child starts to think that others are laughing with him,not at him.This is part of the process that Charles Cooley called

Which of the following agents of socialization has the most enduring,lifelong impact on the individual?

Research has been conducted regarding why teens engage in smoking and other deviant behaviors.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

Erving Goffman theorized social life as a kind of con game in which we work to control the impressions others have of us.What did Goffman call this process?

Chapter 4 presents theories of the self by Sigmund Freud,Charles Cooley,and George Herbert Mead.Describe the social component of each of these three theoretical perspectives.

Formal subjects like math and reading are part of schools' hidden curriculum.

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?

A college student plans to go to graduate school because she thinks of herself as having excellent critical thinking skills and a brilliant mind.Where would Charles Cooley's theory of the looking-glass self suggest that she got these ideas?

"Each to each a looking-glass,/ Reflects the other that doth pass." This line of poetry,associated with sociologist Charles Cooley,indicates that our sense of self originates in

Which part of the mind of feral children would Sigmund Freud expect to be MOST fully developed?

Our sense of self is largely created through social processes.

Parents often buy their children gender-specific toys.Boys are given action figures that encourage active and aggressive play,while girls are given dolls and toy ovens that reinforce traditional gender roles.This is part of what process?

What happens to individuals who are NOT socialized?

According to sociologists,our genetic makeup determines what kind of personality and character traits we develop in life.

What was Sigmund Freud's greatest contribution to the understanding of the self?

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.If this research is accurate,what does it suggest about dolphins?

What do sociologists call it when people's jobs require them to manage their feelings as part of their official duties?

A famous monologue from Shakespeare's As You Like It begins as follows: All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts. Which theory of social life could be seen as taking its inspiration from these lines?