Ch.3 Socialization
TRUE-FALSE QUESTIONS:
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1. _____ Language is the key to human development.
2. _____ Studies of institutionalized children demonstrate that some of the characteristics that we take
for granted as being “human” traits result from our basic instincts.
3. _____ The Harlow’s found that when monkeys were frightened they ran to the wire frame “mother”
with the bottle.
4. _____ Charles H. Cooley introduced the concept of the generalized other to sociology.
5. _____According to Freud, the ego is the balancing force between the id and the demands of society
that suppress it.
6. _____ Kohlberg assumed female subjects were not necessary because the results of research with
boys would apply to girls as well.
7. _____ Since emotions are natural human responses, socialization has very little to do with how we
feel.
8. _____ Much of our socialization is intended to turn us into conforming members of society.
9. _____Parents may give their sons and daughters different toys to play with, but they do not have
different expectations about how they will behave or the kind of play in which they engage.
10. _____ Advertisements have made a concerted effort to not perpetuate gender stereotypes by
portraying males as dominant and rugged and females as sexy and submissive.
11. _____ The first agent of socialization to have a major impact on us is our peer group.
12. _____ The benefits of day care depend in part on the child’s background.
13. _____ A latent function of education is transmitting the skills and values appropriate for earning a
living.
14. _____ Next to the family, the peer group is the most powerful socializing force in society.
15. _____ Work gives us the opportunity to learn anticipatory socialization, learning to play a role
before entering it.
16. _____ Total institutions are very effective in stripping away people’s personal freedom.
17. _____ Adolescence is a social creation in industrialized societies.
18. _____ Divorce and losing jobs are common during the older years.
19. _____ Industrialization brought with it a delay in the onset of old age.
20. _____ Most sociologists believe that people cannot help what they do, think, or feel for everything is
simply a result of their exposure to socialization.
Ch.3 Socialization
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Date:
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FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS:
1. Without _________________________, people have no mechanism for developing thought.
2. The Harlow experiments with _________________________ support what we know about children raised in isolation.
3. Charles H. Cooley coined the term _________________________ to describe the process by which a sense of self
develops.
4. To put yourself in some else’s shoes is to learn how to _________________________ .
5. Mead used the term _________________________ to refer to our perception of how people in general think of us.
6. In the _________________________ stage of Piaget’s model of reasoning, children develop the ability to use symbols.
7. One of the main findings of the sociologist Kohn was that socialization depends on a family’s
_________________________ .
8. By influencing values, _________________________ becomes a key component in people’s ideas of right and wrong.
9. The process of learning new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors to match new life situations is
_________________________.
10. An attempt to remake the self by stripping away the individual’s current identity and stamping a new one in its
place is a _________________________.
11. Childhood, adolescence, transitional adulthood, the middle years, and the older eyars are all stages in the
_________________________.
12. The life course stage between childhood and transitional adulthood is _________________________.
13. The stage of life course that poses a special challenge for United States women is _________________________.
14. In pre-industrial societies, old age was thought to begin around age _________________________.
15. Because individuals are not robots, their _________________________ is difficult to predict.
MATCH THESE SOCIAL SCIENTISTS WITH THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS
1. Melvin Kohn
2. Erving Goffman
3. Melissa Milkie
4. Paul Ekman
5. Jean Piaget
6. Harry & Margaret Harlow
7. H.M. Skeels & H.B. Dye
8. Lawrence Kohlberg
9. Carol Gilligan
10. Colin Turnbull
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Concluded that people everywhere experience six basic emotions
Conducted studies of isolated rhesus monkeys
Studies adolescent boys’ use of media images
Studied gender differences in moral development
Studied total institutions
Found social class differences in child rearing
Carried out research on the Ik of Uganda
Studied institutionalized children
Discovered that there are four stages in cognitive development
Studied the development of morality