Exam 4: Socialization

George Herbert Mead called the impulsive and spontaneous aspect of the self the:

Freud believed that the human personality is set by the age of five.This idea has been criticized by some sociologists because:

Anticipatory socialization involves beginning to take the norms and behaviors of a role to which one aspires but does not yet occupy.

According to Freud,what is the unconscious?

Freud called the part of the self that represents appropriate behavior and a moral sense of right and wrong:

What helps sustain the overall structure of society,with all its privileges and disadvantages?

Which thinker was associated with the study of the development of thinking (or "cognitive")skills during childhood?

If people believe an act is moral because it pleases others,they are in what stage of moral development,according to Kohlberg?

According to Lev Vygotsky,the way people think depends more on their innate characteristics and less on the social institutions in which people grow up.

What term refers to a person's ability to choose socializing influences from a wide variety of mass media and cultural offerings?

Explain the stages of cognitive development.

Parent-adolescent conflict is often temporary and in the long run families exert more influence on adolescents than peer groups.Moreover,peer groups typically help members to integrate into the larger society and thus often serve as a source of social stability.

Explain the sociological criticisms of Freud's model of the self.

The basic idea of ____is that our feelings about who we are depend largely on how we see ourselves judged by others.

Who are significant others?

Both human babies and baby rhesus moneys require:

Compare and contrast Freud,Mead,and Piaget on the development of the self.

The Thomas theorem states: "Situations we define as real are rarely real in their consequences."

What is self-socialization?

The founder (s)of psychoanalysis was (were):