SOC 111
What is the difference between resocialization and adult socialization?
Adult socialization is our ongoing learning of how to fit in in our changing envirnmment - eg a new job, new respoinsibilities when you move away from home. Resocialization is more drastic and is the process by which one's social values, beleifs and norms are reengineered. Often this is through a deliberate and intensive process. Examples - assimilating immigrants, prison, going from an all-boys high school to a coed university.
Define: Status set
All of the statuses that one holds simultaneously (pg 133)
What is a total institution? Give an example.
An institution in which one is totally immersed and that controls all the aspects of daily life. Daily life becomes the perscribed activity and it is all found within the same place. Examples - MTC, Boot Camp
Name four agents of socialization
Media, Peers, School, Family
What is the difference between an ascribed status and an achieved status? Give an example for each.
One is born into, or involuntarily assigned an ascribed status - race, age, sex etc. Achieved stauses are more about what you become - doctor, athlete, juggler, runner etc
Define: Master status
One status/role which overrides or overpowers your other roles. (Role Theory, pg 134)
Johnny didn't perform well on his last chemistry midterm because he was too tired to focus during the test. This is because he had a basketball game the night before that went into triple overtime and he was the starting point guard. In Role Theory, what is this an example of?
Role Conflict. He is having trouble balancing the competing demands and roles between two different statuses - student and athlete.
What is the difference between role strain and role conflict?
Role strain is when a single status has many roles that can be difficult to manage at the same time - but they all come from a single status. Role conflict is when you have roles from different statusew competing with each other. Like being a mother and a teacher.
what is the difference between I, me and self?
Self - your identity as perceived by you I - one's sense of agency, action or power Me - Your identity as you think others see you
Define: Gender Roles
Sets of behavioural norms assumed to accompany one's status as male or female (pg 134)
Define: Role Conflict
Tension caused by the competing demands of two or more roles pertaining to different statuses. (pg 133)
What is the generalized other?
on internalized sense of all the social expectations that we've learned so that we know how to interact with strangers appropriately - even if we've never met them before.
