Sociology 3

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

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

• True

• False

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

• True

• False

Each culture has norms of emotion that demand conformity.

• True

• False

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

• True

• False

Coined the term "looking-glass self".

• Cooley

• Kohn

• Piaget

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

• True

• False

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

• True

• False

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

Our social mirror sets up effective controls over our behavior.

• True

• False

Concluded that children experience four stages of development.

• Piaget

• Freud

• Kohn

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

• True

• False

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

• True

• False

Stages, from birth to death, are called _______.

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

• Death

• Retirement

• Taking care of grandchildren

• Loss of physical ability

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

• True

• False

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

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

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

• True

• False

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

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

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

Groups of individuals approximately the same age are called _________.

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

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

• Controls

• Laws

• Agents

• Customs

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

Freud assumed that to be male is normal.

• True

• False

Coined the term "generalized other".

• Cooley

• Mead

• Kohn

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

The ego develops to balance the ___________.

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

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

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

• Our culture

• Our education

• Our self

• Our families

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

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

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

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

Id, ego, and superego

• Piaget

• Mead

• Freud

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

• Particular social locations

• Social class

• Gender

• All of the above

Studied social class differences in child-rearing,

• Piaget

• Kohn

• Mead

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

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

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

• Total

• Childhood

• Workplace

• Anticipatory

Total institutions:

• Is a term coined by Harold Garfinkel

• Exist primarily in societies with totalitarian governments

• Are places in which people are cut off from the rest of society and are almost toally controlledby the officials who run the place

• All of the above

Total institutions rarely encourage degradation ceremonies.

• True

• False

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

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

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

• Sensormotor

• Preoperational

• Concrete operational

• Formal operational