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Essentials of Sociology

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social environments   the entire human environment, including direct contact with others  
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feral children   children assumed to have been raised by animals, in the wilderness, isolated from humans  
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socialization   the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group-the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, norms, and actions thought appropriate for them  
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looking-glass self   a term coined by Charles Horton Cooley to refer to the process by which our self develops through internalizing others' reactions to us  
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significant others   an individual who significantly influences someone else's life  
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generalized other   the norms, values, attitudes, and expectations of people "in general"; the child's ability to take the role of the generalized other is a significant step in the development of a self  
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id   Freud's term for our inborn basic drives  
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ego   Freud's term for a balancing force between the id and the demands of sociology  
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superego   Freud's term for the conscience; the internalized norms and values of our social groups  
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gender   the behaviors and attitudes that a group considers proper for its males and females; masculinity and femininity  
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gender socialization   the ways in which in which society sets children on different paths in life because they are male or female  
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peer group   a group of individuals of roughly that same age who are linked by common interests  
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mass media   forms of communications, such as radio, newspapers, and television that are directed to mass audiences  
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gender roles   the behaviors and attitudes expected of people because because they are female or male  
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social inequality   a social condition in which privileges and obligations are given to some but denied to others  
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agents of socialization   people or groups that affect our self-concept, attitudes, behaviors, or other orientations toward life  
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anticipatory socialization   the process of learning in advance a role or status one anticipates having  
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resocialization   the process of learning new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors  
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total institution   a place that is almost totally controlled by those who run it, in which people are cut off from the rest of society and the society is mostly cut off from them  
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degradation ceremony   a term coined by Harold Garfinkel to refer to a ritual whose goal is to remake someone's self by stripping away that individual's self-identity and stamping a new identity in its place  
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life course   the stages of our life as we go from birth to death  
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transitional adulthood   a term that refers to a period following high school when young adults have not yet taken on the responsibilities ordinarily associated with adulthood; also called adultolescence  
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