Exam 11: Parenting Roles and Child Socialization

Risman found that most men feel comfortable as single parents.

What is personality according to a symbolic interactionist perspective? How does the self-fulfilling prophecy come into play from this perspective?

The theorist who views the social order as resulting from and in harmony with his eight stages was

Single parents tend to socialize their children in more nontraditional and flexible gender-role values and behaviors.

A classic study of three primitive tribes in New Guinea by anthropologist __________ found great diversity in the attitudes, values, and behavior of both men and women.

__________, a Swiss social psychologist, believed that there are four major stages of intellectual development: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, and formal operations.

Instrumental or operant conditioning places the focus on the response, whereas classical conditioning links a response to a known stimulus.

McLanahan and Booth found that children in father-only families were much more likely to be poor than those in other family types.

Sociologist Murray Straus recommends that corporal punishment

In the socialization of males and females, empirical evidence suggests a continuation of gender-role stereotyping and gender segregation in spite of tremendous shifts in gender-role attitudes.

Significant others

Research has shown that chemical substances such as progesterone, testosterone, or estrogen determine and predict behavior.

Mothers are incapable of "fathering" while fathers are incapable of "mothering."

Discuss how and why models of good parenting can differ by context.

According to a symbolic interaction perspective, the most fruitful approach to understanding the behavior of individuals is to analyze the society of which they are a part.

Classic psychoanalytic theory stresses the importance of biological drives and unconscious processes.

According to Baumrind, ___________ parents lay down many rules and strictly and consistently enforce those rules using punishment techniques but do not discuss with the child the reasons for the rules or instill in them a set of principles they can use to regulate their own behaviors based on situational circumstances.

Why is it so hard to raise children free of gender role stereotypes?

Research by John Money found that biological males, defined and reared as females,

In the ______________________ parenting style, the individual has a strong desire for closeness but is uncomfortable with any distance for fear of losing the attachment figure.