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chapter 3 sociology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the entire human environment, including direct contact with others | social environment |
| children assumed to have been raised by animals, in the wilderness isolated from other humans | feral children |
| the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group- the knowledge skills attitudes values and actions thought appropriate for them | socialization |
| the unique human capacity of being able to see ourselves "from the outside" the views we internalize of how others see us | self |
| a term coined by Charles Horton Cooley to refer to the process by which our self develops through internalizing others' reactions to us taking the role of the other - putting oneself in someone else's shoes | looking-glass self |
| an individual who significantly influences someone's life | significant other |
| frauds term for our inborn basic drives | id |
| frauds term for a balancing force between the id and the demands of society | ego |
| frauds term for the conscience, the internalized norms and values of our social groups | superego |
| the ways in which society sets children onto different courses in life because they are male or female | gender socialization |
| a group of individuals of roughly the same age who are linked by common interests | peer group |
| forms of communications such as radio newspapers and television that are directed to mass audiences | mass media |
| the behaviors and attitudes considered appropriate because one is a female or a male | gender role |
| a social condition in which privileges and obligations are given to some but denied to others | social inequality |
| people or groups that affect our concept attitudes behaviors or other orientations toward life | agents of socialization |
| the intended beneficial consequences of people's actions | manifest functions |
| unintended beneficial consequences of people's actions | latent functions |
| because one anticipates a future role, one learns parts of it now | anticipatory socialization |
| the process of learning new norms values attitudes and behaviors | resocialization |
| a place in which people are cut off from the rest of society and are almost totally controlled by the officials who run the place | total institution |
| a term coined by harold carfinkel to describe an attempt to remake the self stripping away an individuals current identity and stamping a new one in its place | degradation ceremony |
| the stages of our life as we go from birth to death | life course |
| a term that refers to a period following high school when young adults have not yet taken on the responsibilities ordinarily associated with adulthood | transitional adulthood |