| Term | Definition |
|---|
| socialization | process through which people learn the expectations of society |
| roles | expected behavior associated with a given status in society |
| identity | how one defines oneself |
| personality | person's relatively consistent pattern of behavior, feelings, predispositions, and beliefs |
| social control | pocess by which groups and individuals within those groups are brought into conformity with dominant social expectations |
| socialization agents | those who pass on social expectations |
| peers | those with whom you interact on equal terms, such as friends, fellow students, and coworkers |
| psychoanalytic theory | help discovers causes of psychological problems |
| id | consists of deep drives and impulses |
| superego | dimension of the self that represents the standards of society |
| ego | seat of reason and common sense between id and superego |
| social learning theory | formation of identity to be a learned response to social stimuli |
| self | what we imagine we are |
| looking glass self | explain how a peron's conception of self arises through considering our relationships to others |
| imitation stage | children merely copy the behavior of those around them |
| play stage | children take on the roles of significant people in their environment, not just imitating but incorporating their relationship to the other |
| significant others | those with whom they have a close affiliation |
| game stage | child becomes capable of taking on multiple roles at the same time |
| generalized other | abstract composite of social rols and social expectations |
| life course | perspective to describe and analyze the connection between people's personal attributes, the roles they occupy, the life events they experience, and the social and historical aspects of these events |
| adult socialization | involves learning behaviors and attitudes appropriate to specific situations and roles |
| anticipatory socialization | learning of expectations associated with a role a person expects to enter in the future |
| age stereotypes | preconceived judgments about what different age group are like |
| agre prejudice | negative attitude about an age group that is generalized to all people in that group |
| age discrimination | different and unequal treatment of people based solely on their age |
| ageism | practice of age prejudice and discrimination |
| age stratification | hierarchical ranking of different age groups in society |
| disengagement theory | predicts that as people age, they gradually withdraw from participation in society and are simultaneously relieved of responsibilities |
| rite of passage | ceremony or ritual tha tmarks the transition of an individual from one role to another |
| resocialization | process which existing social roles are radically altered or replaced |
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