Sociology Ch. 3 Quiz Qs
When people model themselves after the members of peer groups they would like to join, they are engaging in a process that sociologists call ________
anticipatory socialization
Goffman's idea of the resocialization process includes ________
breaking down an old identity, then building up a new identity
A majority of people over the age of sixty-five in the United States ________
consider their health "good" or "excellent"
A distinctive contribution of schooling to the process of socialization is ________
exposing the child to an impersonal, bureaucratic setting
The special importance of the peer group is the fact that it ________
has a greater effect than parents on children's long-term goals
Our basic drives or needs as humans are reflected in Freud's concept of the ________
id
Mead would agree that ________
if you won $700 million in a lottery, your "self" might change.
In the historical perspective, the importance of the mass media to the socialization process has ________
increased over time
What effect did industrialization have on life expectancy in the United States and Western Europe?
life expectancy went up
Based on the Harlows' research with rhesus monkeys and the case of Anna, the isolated child, one might reasonably conclude that ________
long-term social isolation leads to permanent developmental damage in both monkeys and humans
The focus of Lawrence Kohlberg's research was ________
moral reasoning
Critics of Erikson's theory of personality development point out that ________
not everyone confronts the stages in the exact order given by Erikson
Thinking about how patterns of child-rearing vary by class, lower-class parents generally stress ________, while well-to-do parents typically stress ________.
obedience; creativity
When Cooley used the concept of the "looking-glass self," he claimed that ________
people see themselves as they think others see them
Which of the following concepts refers to a person's fairly consistent pattern of acting, thinking, and feeling?
personality
Erik H. Erikson's view of socialization states that ________
personality develops over the entire life course in patterned stages
Looking at childhood in global perspective, we find that ________
rich societies extend childhood much longer than do poor societies
According to Piaget, in which stage of human development do individuals experience the world only through sensory contact?
sensorimotor stage
Based on what you have read in this chapter, you would correctly conclude that ________
society shapes how we think, feel, and act
In Freud's model of personality, what represents the presence of culture within the individual?
superego
Communities differ in terms of the racial composition of the population. In which of the following regions of the United States is there a relatively high number of people who claim to be multiracial?
the Southwest, including Arizona and Southern California
The concept of "gerontocracy" refers to a society in which ________
the oldest people have the most wealth, power, and prestige
George Herbert Mead considered the self to be ________
the part of an individual's personality that is composed of self-awareness and self-image
Based on what you have read in this chapter, how would sociologists explain the fact that many young people in the United States experience adolescence as a time of confusion?
there are cultural inconsistencies in the definition of this stage of life as partly childlike and partly adultlike
A setting where a staff tries to radically change someone's personality through carefully controlling the environment is called a(n) ________
total institution
