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People and groups who teach us about our culture
Agents of socialization
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The process by which individuals practice for a future social role by adopting the norms or behaviors associated with a position that have not yet achieved
Anticipatory socialization
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A theory than contends that biology, specifically our genetic make up, almost completely shapes human behavior
Biological Determinism
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the values and orientations of one's overall community rather than those of specific individuals
Generalized other
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implicit lessons conveyed in school about how children should behave
Hidden curriculum
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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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the idea that our sense of self develops as a reflection of the way we think others see us
Looking glass self
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the part of the self that is spontaneous, impulsive, creative, and unpredictable
Mead's "I"
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The sense of self that has been learned from interaction with others
Mead's "me"
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a disagreement about the relative importance of biology and the social environment in influencing human behavior
Nature versus nurture debate
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the learning of the informal norms associated with a type of employment
Occupational socialization
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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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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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activities that mark and celebrate a change in a person's social status
rites of passage
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the collection of thoughts and feelings you have when considering yourself as an object
sense of self
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a theory that contends that culture and the social environment almost completely shape human behavior
Social determinism
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the process through which people learn their culture's basic norms, values, beliefs, and behaviors
socialization
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confining social setting in which an authority regulates all aspects of a person's life
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