Question | Answer |
personality | sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are characteristic of an individual |
sociobiology | systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior |
aptitude | capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a partucular body of knowledge |
feral children | wild or untamed children |
socialization | interactive process through which individuals learn the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of society |
self | concious awareness of possessing a distinct identity that separates us from other members of society |
looking-glass self | interactive process by which we develop an image of ourselves based on how we imagine we appear to others |
role-taking | taking or pretending to take the role of others |
significant others | specific people, such as parents, brothers, sisters, other relatives, and friends, who have a direct influence on our socialization |
generalized other | internalized attitudes, expectations, and viewpoints of society that we use to guide our behavior and reinforce our sense of self |
I | unsocialized, spontaneous, self-interested component of the personality and self-identity |
me | part of the identity that is aware of the expectations and attitudes of society; the socialized self |
agents of socialization | specific individuals, groups, and institutions that provide the situations in which socialization can occur |
peer group | primary group composed of individuals of roughly equal age and social characteristics |
mass media | newspapers, magazines, books, television, radio, films, and other forms of communication that reach large audiences without personal contact between the individuals sending the information and those receiving it |
total institution | setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society for a set perod of time and subjected to the control of officials of varied ranks |
resocialization | break with past experiences and the learning of new values and norms |
heredity | transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to children |
instinct | unchanging, biologically inherited behavior pattern |