Ch 3 SOC 100

Nearly all older Americans are covered by Medicare, but this covers only about half of their total health-care expenses. On average, older Americans paid nearly___________out of pocket for health care in 2016, an increase of ________________percent since 2006. Despite Medicare, health-care costs still compose______________ percent of older adults' total expenses.

$6,000, 38, 13

For a boy on a youth soccer team, socialization involves an appreciation of the perspectives of various "others." Use George Herbert Mead's theory to place each item in the appropriate circle.

(biggest to smallest circle) Spectators, Players on both teams, the boy's best friend, part of the same team, the boy himself

More than_________percent of teens go online at least once a day, and nearly ___________ percent use the Internet "almost constantly." Americans watched an average of nearly ____________ hours of television per day in 2017, representing more than half of their total leisure time.

90, 25, 3

What is distinctive about human beings, compared to other animals?

A sense of self

Place the items in chronological order based on George Herbert Mead's theory of the development of the social self

A sense of the self as "I," a bundle of wants and desires. A sense of the self as "me," the object of others' perceptions. A sense of society and its expectations as the "generalized other."

In which exchange is the child's speech egocentric?

Adult: I like hot dogs. Child: I like fire engines

Identify the ways in which Social Security and Medicare align with disengagement theory and the ways in which they do not.

Agree: Social Security helps make it possible for elderly persons to retire. The programs encourage the elderly to leave the job market and assume new roles in society. Disagree: Disengagement allows the elderly to abandon their potentially taxing social roles. Complete disengagement from society benefits those still working in the system.

Identify each statement about mass media as an agent of socialization as either correct or incorrect.

Correct: More than 90 percent of teens go online at least once a day. Violent video games may affect youth in similar ways as violence on television. Incorrect: Americans spend about a quarter of their leisure time consuming media. Teens easily distinguish between the fantasy world of video games and the real world.

Sociologist ______________ studied how children learn to use the concepts of "I" and "me." _______________focused on how children develop self-concept through interpreting how others see them. A third theory looks at cognition, how children's thinking changes as they grow. This theory is based in the work of __________________

George Herbert Mead, Charles Horton Cooley, Jean Piaget

In sociology, how is the concept of identity understood?

It relates to people's understanding of who they are and what is meaningful to them.

Why is a child's peer group a more important socializing agent today than in the past?

More small children spend time in day care or in a preschool setting.

According to the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) study, place the following caregivers in order from the highest to lowest source of elder abuse and verbal mistreatment.

Non family member, Spouse, Adult Children

The chapter opens with a discussion of Caitlyn Jenner's experience coming out as a transgender woman.What sociological process or theory best exemplifies this type of experience?

Resocialization

Coy Mathis, the six-year-old transgender child described in the introduction to this chapter, responded negatively when her parents tried to dress her in "boy" clothing and other children referred to her as a boy.What sociological process or theory best explains her experience?

Socialization

Identify each example as representative of either socialization or not.

Socialization: A parent teaches a child not to burp at the dinner table. A child encourages her parents to open a Facebook account. Someone acts visibly uncomfortable when a coworker tells a sexist joke. Not Socialization: A nurse explains to a patient how to take a prescription medication correctly.

What is the definition of socialization?

The process of learning the norms, values, behavior, and social skills appropriate to one's social position.

The idea that death is for old people is a recent development.

True

Identify the true and false statements about information technology and its contribution to increased age discrimination.

True: Internet content promotes a culture of youth and beauty. Young people tend to have better computer skills. False: The elderly view computer technology as anachronistic. Access to medical resources via the Internet favors those under age sixty-five. Social media itself promotes isolation and loneliness.

Identify the true and false statements about race and older adults.

True: Whites, on average, live nearly four years longer than African Americans. Blacks are more likely to suffer from inadequate health care, compared with whites. False: In 2015, the life expectancy for a white woman was eighty years, compared to sixty-five for a Black man. Immigration most affects children and young adults, not the elderly.

A seventy-seven-year-old woman is currently struggling with foreclosure, living on a "patchwork of welfare," and coping with a system of institutions that seem to make her life difficult. Her experience with aging has been shaped by her earlier life, as well as by social and historical contexts.This is consistent with which theoretical perspective?

life course