Sociology 3

1. The I is the self as subject.

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False

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3. Mead thought that play is crucial to the development of the self.

True

False

4. Piaget used the term "operational" to mean the ability to reason.

True

False

5. Each culture has norms of emotion that demand conformity.

True

False

6. A person, who was married but is now divorced and single will experience the process of resocialization.

True

False

7. Coined the term "looking-glass self".

Cooley

Kohn

Piaget

8. Anticipatory socialization involves learning to play a role before actually taking on that role.

True

False

9. Industrialization brought with it a delay in the onset of old age.

True

False

10. Usually, the significant others who first teach us our part in the gender-division of the world are:

Our peers

Our parents

Our teachers

Our televisions

11. Our social mirror sets up effective controls over our behavior.

True

False

12. Concluded that children experience four stages of development.

Piaget

Freud

Kohn

13. Socialization is the process by which we learn the ways of society, or all particular groups.

True

False

14. George H. Mead introduced the concept of the generalized other to sociology.

True

False

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16. Increasingly during the last stage of life, people begin to contemplate:

Death

Retirement

Taking care of grandchildren

Loss of physical ability

17. The Adler study found that athletic ability helped make boys popular.

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False

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19. Taking the role of the other means to:

Put ourselves in someone else's shoes

Take a role away from someone

Develop self-esteem

Reach the play stage

20. Studies of monkeys suggest that animals do not react in smiliar ways to humans when isolated.

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False

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25. The stage of learning to take the role of the other, which generally takes place from three to six years of age, is:

The play stage

The games stage

The imitation stage

The sensorimotor stage

26. The result of being socialized into a self and emotions sets up effective _____ over our behavior.

Controls

Laws

Agents

Customs

27. According to a study by Adler & Adler, the norms that made boys popular in elementary school include all except:

Athletic ability

Family background

Coolness

Toughness

28. Freud assumed that to be male is normal.

True

False

29. Coined the term "generalized other".

Cooley

Mead

Kohn

30. According to George Herbert Mead which of the following is not one of the three stages in learning to take the role of the generalized other?

Imitation

Transition

Play

Game

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34. What is it that prevents us from being prisoners of socialization?

Our culture

Our education

Our self

Our families

35. When we examine influences of religion, approximately how many Americans belong to a local congregation?

Ten percent

Sixty-five percent

One-hundred percent

Thirty percent

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37. In Piaget's formal operational stage children are:

Capable of abstract thinking

Capable of only taking the role of the other

Capable of only using symbols

Capable of understanding numbers

38. The looking-glass self includes:

Imagining how we appear to those around us

Interpreting others' reaction to us

Developinga self-concept

All of the above

39. Id, ego, and superego

Piaget

Mead

Freud

40. Everyone's childhood occurs atsome pointinhistory, and is embedded in:

Particular social locations

Social class

Gender

All of the above

41. Studied social class differences in child-rearing,

Piaget

Kohn

Mead

42. All of the following statements about Cooley's theory of the development of self are correct except:

The development of self is an ongoing, lifelong process

We move beyond the looking-glass self as we mature

The process of the looking-glass self applies to old age

The self is always in process

43. People and groups that influence our self-concept, emotions, attitudes, and behavior are:

Likely to be in single-parent households

Generalized others

Agents of socialization

Primarily passive influences

44. __________ socialization is learning to play a role before entering it.

Total

Childhood

Workplace

Anticipatory

45. Total institutions:

Is a term coined by Harold Garfinkel

Exist primarily in societies with totalitarian governments

All of the above

46. Total institutions rarely encourage degradation ceremonies.

True

False

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49. According to Jean Piaget, children develop the ability to use symbols during the __________ stage.

Sensormotor

Preoperational

Concrete operational

Formal operational

50. According to Mead, from the ages of about three to six, children can only mimic others.

True

False

51. Paul Ekman found that everyone in the world experiences six basic:

Beliefs

Values

Emotions

Folkways

52. Freud's term for a balancing force between the inborn drives for self-gratification and the demands of society is the:

Id

Superego

Ego

Libido

53. _________ not only leads to different ways of expressing emotions, but even affects what we feel.

Language

Socialization

Culture

Religion

54. Each of us is actively involved in the construction of the:

Mind

Self

Norms of society

Id and the ego

55. Sociologists Melvin Kohn found that the main concern of middle-class parents is their children's outward conformity.

True

False

56. A National Institute of Child Health and Human Development study on kindergarten children indicated that:

Time spent in kindergarten has little effect on cooperation with others

Time spent in kindergarten has no effect on the bonds with their mothers

Time spent in kindergarten negatively affects bonds with their mothers and cooperation with others

57. According to Cooley, the development of the self is essentially completed by adolescence.

True

False

58. For many aging people, the most comfortable period in their lives is:

The older years

The later middle years

Young adulthood

The early middle years

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60. The technique of psychoanalysis was founded by Piaget and Freud.

True

False

61. The stages that we all go through in life are called the:

Birth to death sequence

Life course

Life stages

Birth to death stages

62. From the cases of institutionalized children, it is possible to conclude that:

Humans have no natural language

Social interaction is important for humans to establish close bonds with others

It is impossible for a person who has been isolated to progress through normal learning stages

All of the above

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64. Studies of both isolated and institutionalized children demonstrate that some of the characteristics that we take for granted as being "human" traits result from our basic instincts.

True

False

65. Given recent socail changes that have taken place within the United States, which of the following groups are particularly challenged by the early middle years stage of the life course?

Generation X

Women

Baby boomers

Men

66. According to sociologist Melvin Kohn, middle-class parents try to develop their children's:

Outward conformity

Level of obedience, neatness, and cleanliness

Curiosity, self-expression, and self-control

All of the above

67. In a highly patriarchal society, women "socially" become men for:

Biological reasons

Developmental socialization

Mature socialization

Practical reasons

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69. The sandwich generation experience is most likely to occus in the United States during:

The early middle years

The older years

Young adulthood

The later middle years

70. With the change from agricultural societies to industrialized societies, what used to be thought of as old age (40) has stretched out to include a new stage of life beginning around 63. This stage is:

The later middle years

The pre-retirement years

The post-retirement years

The transitional older years

71. During Piaget's preoperational stage, a child'sunderstanding is limited to direct contact with the environment.

True

False

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Sociology 3

1. The I is the self as subject.

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. The process of learning new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors to match new life situations is _________.

3. Mead thought that play is crucial to the development of the self.

4. Piaget used the term "operational" to mean the ability to reason.

5. Each culture has norms of emotion that demand conformity.

6. A person, who was married but is now divorced and single will experience the process of resocialization.

7. Coined the term "looking-glass self".

8. Anticipatory socialization involves learning to play a role before actually taking on that role.

9. Industrialization brought with it a delay in the onset of old age.

10. Usually, the significant others who first teach us our part in the gender-division of the world are:

11. Our social mirror sets up effective controls over our behavior.

12. Concluded that children experience four stages of development.

13. Socialization is the process by which we learn the ways of society, or all particular groups.

14. George H. Mead introduced the concept of the generalized other to sociology.

15. Stages, from birth to death, are called _______.

16. Increasingly during the last stage of life, people begin to contemplate:

17. The Adler study found that athletic ability helped make boys popular.

18. One of the main findings of the sociologist Kohn was the socialization depends on a family's _______.

19. Taking the role of the other means to:

20. Studies of monkeys suggest that animals do not react in smiliar ways to humans when isolated.

21. Charles H. Cooley coined the term _______ to describe the process by which a sense of self develops.

22. _________ is the term usedto describe someone,such as a parent and/or a sibling, who plays a major role in our social development.

23. In pre-industrial societies, old age was thought to begin around age _______.

24. Groups of individuals approximately the same age are called _________.

25. The stage of learning to take the role of the other, which generally takes place from three to six years of age, is:

26. The result of being socialized into a self and emotions sets up effective _____ over our behavior.

27. According to a study by Adler & Adler, the norms that made boys popular in elementary school include all except:

28. Freud assumed that to be male is normal.

29. Coined the term "generalized other".

30. According to George Herbert Mead which of the following is not one of the three stages in learning to take the role of the generalized other?

31. The ego develops to balance the ___________.

32. In their sutdiesof young children, Goldberg and Lewis concluded that mothers unconciously reward their daughters for being ________.

33. Learning to be "male" or "female" is known as ________.

34. What is it that prevents us from being prisoners of socialization?

35. When we examine influences of religion, approximately how many Americans belong to a local congregation?

36. The ability to understand how the group as a whole feels and thinks is to percieve the __________.

37. In Piaget's formal operational stage children are:

38. The looking-glass self includes:

39. Id, ego, and superego

40. Everyone's childhood occurs atsome pointinhistory, and is embedded in:

41. Studied social class differences in child-rearing,

42. All of the following statements about Cooley's theory of the development of self are correct except:

43. People and groups that influence our self-concept, emotions, attitudes, and behavior are:

44. __________ socialization is learning to play a role before entering it.

45. Total institutions:

46. Total institutions rarely encourage degradation ceremonies.

47. In a series of experiments with rhesus monkeys, the researchers Harlow and Harlow demonstrated the importance of ________.

48. An attempt to remake the self by stripping away the individual's current identity and stamping a new one in its place is a ________.

49. According to Jean Piaget, children develop the ability to use symbols during the __________ stage.

50. According to Mead, from the ages of about three to six, children can only mimic others.

51. Paul Ekman found that everyone in the world experiences six basic:

52. Freud's term for a balancing force between the inborn drives for self-gratification and the demands of society is the:

53. _________ not only leads to different ways of expressing emotions, but even affects what we feel.

54. Each of us is actively involved in the construction of the:

55. Sociologists Melvin Kohn found that the main concern of middle-class parents is their children's outward conformity.

56. A National Institute of Child Health and Human Development study on kindergarten children indicated that:

57. According to Cooley, the development of the self is essentially completed by adolescence.

58. For many aging people, the most comfortable period in their lives is:

59. To put yourself in someone else's shoes is to learn how to _________.

60. The technique of psychoanalysis was founded by Piaget and Freud.

61. The stages that we all go through in life are called the:

62. From the cases of institutionalized children, it is possible to conclude that:

63. The life course stage between childhood and adulthood is ________.

64. Studies of both isolated and institutionalized children demonstrate that some of the characteristics that we take for granted as being "human" traits result from our basic instincts.

65. Given recent socail changes that have taken place within the United States, which of the following groups are particularly challenged by the early middle years stage of the life course?

66. According to sociologist Melvin Kohn, middle-class parents try to develop their children's:

67. In a highly patriarchal society, women "socially" become men for:

68. Define resocialization.

69. The sandwich generation experience is most likely to occus in the United States during:

70. With the change from agricultural societies to industrialized societies, what used to be thought of as old age (40) has stretched out to include a new stage of life beginning around 63. This stage is:

71. During Piaget's preoperational stage, a child'sunderstanding is limited to direct contact with the environment.

72. Who developed the concept of "looking-glass self."

73. In the case of Isabelle, the dabate about _________ became important again.

74. The stage of the life course that poses a special challenge for omwne in the United States is _________.

75. Define significant other.