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What is Class Consciousness?
Karl Marx's term that refers to the recognition by people in a similar economic situation of a common interest.
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What is the "Iron Cage" of rationality?
The dehumanizing aspects of bureaucracy. Max Weber saw bureaucracies as cages with people trapped in them, denied of their basic humanity.
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What is a Latent Consequence?
An unintended consequence of a social arrangement or social action
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What is Counterculture?
A subculture that fundamentally opposes the dominant culture.
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What is Socialization?
The process of learning cultural values, norms, and expectations
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2 essential ingredients necessary for human socialization to occur
- Social Interaction
- Language
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What is The Case of Anna?
- A girl that was locked up for the first 6 years of her life
- She was deprived of social interaction
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What is Cooleys theory of the "Looking Glass Self"
- The importance of how other people influence the way we see ourselves
- Cooley said: I am who you think i think i am
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What is George Meads Role-Taking Theory of childhood socialization?
- Self Concious Stage of Infancy: Self conciousness develops around 2 or 3
- Play Stage: Children pretend at adult roles
- Game Stage: Play is socially structured, rules and roles, and discovering the generalized other
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What is Bandura's social cognitive theory?
Children observe the behavior of others, mostely adults, and learn from that behavior and model after them.
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What is an "Id"?
Frued's term for the collection of urges and drives people have for pleasure and aggression
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What is an "Ego"?
According to Freud, the concious, rational part of self.
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What is a "Superego"?
Freud's term for the internaization of society's morals within the self
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What is Adult Socialization?
- Learning the practices and expectations associated with a social role
- Widely accepted values
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What is Age Cohort?
Individuals from the same generation that have been affected by similar societal events such as an economic depression or war
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What is a Modal Personality Type?
A distinct type of personality considered to be a characteristic of the people in a particular society
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What are the Society's Socialization Agents?
The individuals, groups, and institutions responsible for transmitting the culture of societ to new-comers.
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Why are we dissimilar individuals?
Because we all have different patterns of socialization
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