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Chapter # 5
Question | Answer |
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Personality | the sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are charecteristic to an individual. |
Instinct | ia an unchanginh, biologically.inherited behavior pattern. |
Heredity | the transmission of genetic charecteristics from parents to children. |
sociobiology | the systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior. |
Aptitude | a capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge. |
feral children | wild or untamed children. |
socialization | the interactive process in wich people learn the basic skills and values and beliefs and behavior patterns of a society. |
looking-glass self | refers to the interactive process by wich we develop an image of our selves by how we think we appear to others. |
role taking | forms the basis of the sociolization process by allowing us to anticipate what others except of us. |
significant others | perents, relatives and ciblings. |
generlized other | are internalized attitudes, exspectations and viewpoints of society. |
the me | the part of ourd self that is aware of our exspectations and attitudes of society. |
the i | unsocilized, spontanious, self intrested component of personality and self identity. |
agents of socilization | desribes the spicific individuals, groups, and institutions that enable socilization to take place. |
peer group | a primary group composed of individuals of roughly equel age and similar social characteristics. |
mass media | instumentsof comunication that reach large audiences. |
resocilization | involves a break with past exsperirnces and the learning of new values and norms. |
total institution | a setting in wich people are isolated from the rest of society for a set period of time and are subjected to tight control. |