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Process through which people learn their culture's basic norms, values, beliefs, and appropriate behaviors
Socialization
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the expected attitude for most working-class job
Obedience
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The attitude required for the kind of independent thinking expected in many middle-class occupations
Self-direction
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a group of people, usually of comparable age, who share similar interests and social status
Peer group
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Process of learning the informal norms associated with a type of employment
Occupational Socialization
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the process by which individuals replace old norms and behaviors with new ones as they move from one role or life stage to another
resocialization
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Looks at how age, time, and place shape social identities and experiences over a lifetime
life-course perspective
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activities that mark and celebrate a change in a person's social status
Rites of Passage
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Process by which individuals practice for a future social role by adopting norms or behaviors associated with a position they have not yet achieved
Anticipatory socialization
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Natural condition linked to children's physical immaturity
childhood
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When youth are nearing physical maturity and are no longer considered children but have not yet taken on the rights or responsibilites of adulthood
Adolescence
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Sociologist that argued that the shared historical experiences of a group shape its general attitudes and behaviors
Karl Mannheim
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Contends that biology, specifically our genetic makeup, almost completely shapes human behavior
Biological Determinism
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Contends that culture and the social environment almost completely shape human bahavior
Social Determinism
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Collection of thoughts and feelings you have when considering yourself as an object
Sense of Self
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What Sociologist developed the looking glass self concept?
Charles Cooley
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Sociologist that argued that the self is made up of what he called the "i" and "me"
George Herbert
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Part of the self that is spontaneous, impulsive, creative, and unpredictable
"I"
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Sense of self that has been learned from interaction with others
"Me"
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The ability to follow someone's gaze to see the same thing that person is looking at
Gaze Monitering
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Social theorist most closely associated with the idea that power shapes our daily life and our sense of self
Michel Foucault
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