Exam 3: Socialization

-Based on Figure 3.2,"Transitional Adulthood: A New Stage in the Life Course," what stage shows the greatest difference between men and women making the transition into adulthood?

The ways in which society sets children onto different courses in life because they are male or female is referred to as ________.

What are the starting and stopping points of the development of the self during the life course?

Mead describes the active,creative,and spontaneous part of the self as the ________.

In Mead's theory of development,the "me" is the "object of action" or the "self as object."

The symbolic interactionist who stressed that play was crucial to the development of the concept of self was ________.

Tory is 5 years old. He loves to dress up like Batman and pretend to save Gotham City from the Penguin. According to Mead's theory,he is in the ________ stage.

The advent of Lara Croft and other women of action has clearly divided children with an interest in action films into two camps-one supporting male characters and the other the supporting emerging female characters.

What are the five basic stages in the life course?

Without language there can be no culture,no shared way of life.

What was the result of research on mother-child bonding based on hours per week children spent in day care?

Morris is 3 years old and just beginning to talk. He can count to 10 but is not altogether sure what numbers actually mean. According to Piaget,Morris is in the ________ stage.

What are the three elements of Cooley's looking-glass self concept?

What was the physical makeup of the two "mother" monkeys the Harlows developed for their experiment?

Freud assumed that what was male was "normal" and that females were "inferior,castrated males."

In Piaget's model for children's development of reasoning skills,the term "reasoning skills" is synonymous with the term "operational" as it is used in the theory.

Based on studies of isolated and institutionalized children,what is the key variable in acquiring the basic "human" traits we take for granted?

The Smiths are going Christmas shopping for their two children,Dick and Jane. They plan to buy Dick a Tonka truck and Jane a Barbie doll. Their selection of toys for their children is an example of ________ by parents.

Jean Piaget's use of the term "operational" is most aligned with the concept of ________.

The research of sociologist Melvin Kohn and others demonstrates that the differences in the supervision of children are a matter of the race and ethnicity of the parents more than any other factor.