Sociology Chapter 3

the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture

a person's fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling

Freud's term for the human being's basic drives

Freud's term for a person's conscious efforts to balance innate pleasure-seeking drives with the demands of society

Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals experience the world only through their senses.

Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individual's first use language and other symbols

Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals think abstractly and critically

Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals first see causal connections in their surroundings

George Herbert Mead's term for the part of an individual's personality composed of self-awareness and self-image

Cooley's term for a self-image based on how we think others see us

people such as parents, who have special importance for socialization

Mead's term fro widespread cultural norms and values we sue as reference in evaluating ourselves

a social group whose members have interests, social position, and age in common

learning that helps a person achieve ad desired position

the means for delivering impersonal communications to a vast audience

the study of aging and the elderly

a from of social organization in which the elderly have the most wealth, power and prestige

prejudice and discrimination against older people

a category of people with something inc common, usually their age

a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society and controlled by an administrative staff

radically changing an inmate's personality by carefully controlling the environment