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chapter 5 jade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| personality | sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are characteristic of an individual |
| heredity | the transmission of genetic characteristics from parents from parents to children |
| instinct | unchanging, biologically inherited behavior pattern |
| sociobiology | systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior |
| aptitude | capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge |
| feral children | wild or untamed children |
| socialization | people learn the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of a society |
| self | conscious awareness of possessing a distinct identity that seperates you and your environment from other members of society |
| looking-glass self | refers to the interactive process by which we develop an image of ourselves based on how we imagine we appear to others |
| role-taking | forms the basis of the socialization process by allowing us to anticipate what others of us |
| significant others | may not have used the term, sociologists now |
| generalized other | mead called the internalizaed attitudes, expections, and viewpoints of society |
| I | unsocialized, spontaneous, self-interested component of personality and self-identity |
| me | is the part of ourself that is aware of expectations and attitudes of society |
| agents of socialization | to describe the specific individuals, groups, and insitutions that enable socialization to take place |
| peer group | primary group composed of indviduals of roughly equal age and similar social characteristics |
| mass media | instruments of communication that reach large audiences with no personal contact between those sending the information and those recieving it |
| total institution | setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society for a set period of time and are subject to tight control |
| resocialization | involves a break with past experiences and learning of new values and norms |
| John B. Watson | suggested that what applies to dogs can also be applied to humans |
| the Ik | villages were like one large family |
| Kingsley Davis | studies of Anna and Isabelle provide evidence of the devastating effect of isolation during childhood |
| Rene Spitz | studied the effects of institutionlization on a group of infants living in an orphanage |
| John Locke | claimed that each of us is born without a personality |
| Charles Horton Cooley | one of the founders of the interactionist perspective in sociology |
| George Herbert Mead | another founder of the interactionist perspective, developed ideas related to Cooley's theories |
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