Socialization Unit Quiz: Study Guide
Use this guide to help you review for the quiz which will be on Friday.
If a term below is listed, you need to know more than just the definition. Be
able to apply it to all that we have studied. The quiz will include the
following types of format:
 Definition of terms (3 of 4; worth 3 points each): Define the term
completely and also relate it to sociology with a specific example.
Minimum of two solid sentences per term.
 Multiple Choice/News: 10-15 questions
 Short Answer: 2 of 3 questions worth 5 points each
 Essays: You will write one essay that is worth 10 points
Essay Question: Choose 2 agents of socialization from our discussions.
How might these agents influence gender roles, your values, and your
actual behavior? Also for each agent describe one latent function and one
manifest function that is present.
Things that are fair game for the quiz: all readings, notes, current events, and
discussions from class.
TERMS: Socialization, Agents of Socialization. Manifest & Latent Function,
Total Institutions, Degradation Ceremony, Personal identity kit, Anticipatory
Socialization, Chapter 220, Open Enrollment, Voucher Programs, Hidden
Curriculum
ARTICLES
Why we tuned out, With no boys to ogle we had time to learn, The divorce
generation grows up, Can These Parents Be Saved, Feral Children, Harlow
OTHERS
Feral Children, 1990 Children Television Act, Harry Harlow Study, Smoking and
movies study, Chapter 5 (Skip pp. 118-124 and pp. 129-133), Good Morning
America News Stories, Video clips (Grand Theft Auto)