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Leach Sociology Terms Chapter 5

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personality   sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are characteristic of an individual  
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sociobiology   systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior  
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aptitude   capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a partucular body of knowledge  
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feral children   wild or untamed children  
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socialization   interactive process through which individuals learn the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of society  
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self   concious awareness of possessing a distinct identity that separates us from other members of society  
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looking-glass self   interactive process by which we develop an image of ourselves based on how we imagine we appear to others  
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role-taking   taking or pretending to take the role of others  
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significant others   specific people, such as parents, brothers, sisters, other relatives, and friends, who have a direct influence on our socialization  
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generalized other   internalized attitudes, expectations, and viewpoints of society that we use to guide our behavior and reinforce our sense of self  
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I   unsocialized, spontaneous, self-interested component of the personality and self-identity  
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me   part of the identity that is aware of the expectations and attitudes of society; the socialized self  
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agents of socialization   specific individuals, groups, and institutions that provide the situations in which socialization can occur  
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peer group   primary group composed of individuals of roughly equal age and social characteristics  
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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  
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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  
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resocialization   break with past experiences and the learning of new values and norms  
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heredity   transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to children  
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instinct   unchanging, biologically inherited behavior pattern  
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