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Sociology Chapter 4
MIDTERM 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mass Media | Instills values & norms |
| Hidden Cirriculum | Schools provide education & other values deemed important later in life |
| Agents of Socialization | Provide structured situations where socialization occurs |
| Thomas Theorem | If people define situations as real, they are real in consequences |
| Impression Management | We work to control the impressions people have of us |
| Dramaturgy | Compares social interaction to theater, where individuals take on roles & act them out for an audience |
| Erving Goffman | Said we create meanings through interaction |
| Acquisition of Language | Makes relationships |
| George Herbert Mead | Expanded Cooley's ideas, self created through social interaction, & that it starts in childhood |
| Charles Cooley | Believed sense of self depends on seeing oneself reflected in interactions with others |
| Sigmund Freud | Psychoanalyst, subconscious, & conscious mind which he believed most of our thoughts, drives, & impulses, & behaviors are controlled by |
| Nature Vs. Nurture Debate | Are we who we are because of genetics, or society? |
| Self | Our experience of a personal identity, which is separate & different from all other people |