Chapter 4: Socialization, Interaction, and the Self

Which of the following are examples of socialization?

- Someone acts visibly uncomfortable when a coworker tells a sexist joke. - A parent teaches a child not to burp at the dinner table. - A child shows a parent how to check email using a smartphone.

Which of the following describes an interaction that occurs in copresence?

Having coffee with your mom

Consider how changes in the importance of different agents of socialization might occur over time within a society. Identify the following major agents of socialization as either more or less important to adolescents now than they were in the late 1800s.

More Important Now:schools the mass media,peers Less Important Now:the family

Which statement captures a major point Sherry Turkle makes about communication in her latest book, Reclaiming Conversation?

Online communication reduces our ability to conduct meaningful face-to-face communication.

Place the following stages of child development on the timeline in chronological order, according to George Herbert Mead's theory of the development of the social self.

early: preparatory stage play stage game stage

Emotion work or emotional labor is the process of helping to manage the emotions of others in order to neutralize emotionally charged situations.

false

Pablo comes from a low-income family, but worked hard in school and earned a full scholarship to Stanford University. Pablo is worried that his peers and professors will recognize his background and treat him differently, so he wears new clothes and attempts to hide his accent on the first day of classes. When Pablo goes home for the weekend, he leaves his new clothes behind in his dorm and does not mask his accent. Which sociological concept best explains Pablo's behavior and interactions with others?

impression management

Social media has the potential to increase the number of points of view we are exposed to and socialize us in ways never conceived of before. Someone who has been influenced and "pieced together" through whatever sources available, is an example of which sociological concept?

saturated self

The story of Christopher Knight is an example of which sociological concept?

social isolation

Justine never really thought of herself as a funny person, but her new friends always tell her she's very funny. Justine has started telling more jokes to her friends and recently signed up for improv comedy classes.Which sociological concept best explains Justine's interactions with her friends and beliefs about herself?

the looking-glass self