Deck 5: How We Become Who and What We Are: Socialisation and the New Genetics

Question 1

What is the term for the notion of using our perceptions of how others see us to determine our own self-image?

A) Mortification of self
B) Presentation of self
C) Significant other
D) Looking-glass self

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which of the following can be considered an example of resocialisation?

A) Taking on a new job
B) Leaving school and going to university
C) Retirement from work
D) All of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What term did Goffman use to describe his investigation of human behaviour in social situations?

A) Marxist analysis
B) Dramaturgical analysis
C) Dramatic deconstruction
D) Sociocultural analysis

Answer 3

B

Question 4

According to George Herbert Mead children acquire the concept of the 'generalised Other' during which stage of socialisation?

A) Imitation
B) Game
C) Preoperational
D) Pre-play

Question 5

Who coined the phrase the 'presentation of self'?

A) Arlie Hochschild
B) Herbert Blumer
C) Charles Horton Cooley
D) Erving Goffman

Question 6

When was eugenics first widely questioned?

A) In the early 1800s
B) In the late 1800s
C) In the 1930s
D) In the 1980s

Question 7

The extensive use of mobile phones has:

A) Transformed peer-group interactions
B) Become a social liability
C) Made no difference to people
D) Made a difference to children's speech

Question 8

Which of the following theorists believes children go through states of development?

A) Charles Darwin
B) Jean Piaget
C) Francis Crick
D) Tom Shakespeare

Question 9

Which of the following statements is true regarding studies of identical (monozygotic) twins?

A) The family environment fundamentally determines who we are
B) Our genetic inheritance primarily determines who we are
C) Genetic inheritance plays no role in shaping who we are
D) The interplay of genes and environment make us who we are