Sociology 2001 Exam With 100% Correct
Answers
what is socialization? - correct answers ✔✔the lifelong processes for which people are prepared
to participate in society at every level: individual, interpersonal, group, organizational and
institutional.
Is human interaction necessary? - correct answers ✔✔Yes, babies need physical stimulation to
grow.
Children in institutions - correct answers ✔✔Rene Spitz(1946) did a study at two different
children institutes. One of them had very little physical interaction and 34% of the 91 children
had died within two years of the study. The children were born healthy but after being in the
institute for about two years, they weren't fully developed. The children were small,and some
could not walk or sit up. At the other children's institute there was more physical interaction
and the children's development was normal.
isolated children - correct answers ✔✔children who have been isolated from others in their
own homes also show lack of development.
feral children - correct answers ✔✔children who have grown up in the wild.
George Hebert Mead - correct answers ✔✔"Mind, self, and society" (created by students) Mead
recognized how important it is to interact with others in the development of the self. he used
the term "role taking" to describe the process of figuring out how others will act.
role taking - correct answers ✔✔important verstehen(weber's concept referring to a deep
imagining of how things might be and feel for others) technique
,symbolic interaction - correct answers ✔✔when other person knows the meaning of the
symbols(language)
what is cultural capital? - correct answers ✔✔values, attitudes, and knowledge(education)
provided by parents to help us succeed in society.
occupational socialization - correct answers ✔✔to perform well at work, we need to know
certain skills, values and norms.
Charles Horton Cooley - correct answers ✔✔Looking glass self: (1) how we think our behaviors
appear to others (2) how we think others judge our behavior (3) how we feel about our
judgements.... we believe our ideas about ourselves and respond to them with some feeling,
such as pride, mortification, or humiliation
mead and cooley - correct answers ✔✔major difference between social theories of self and
psychological theories of the self:
1.social theories of self: society exists first; individual is shaped by society
2.psychological theories of self; individual develops first, then responds to the society based on
preexisting tendencies to behave in particular way.
self-fulfilling prophecy - correct answers ✔✔developed by Robert Merton; it is a prediction that
causes us to act as if a particular definition of ourselves, others, or a situation were true (even if
it isn't true) as a result, it becomes true because of our actions.
Erving Goffman - correct answers ✔✔Presentation of self; Goffman believed that every
presentation begins with presentation of self.
Impression management - correct answers ✔✔handshaking with friends, quiet with strangers
, Dramaturgical approach - correct answers ✔✔we prepare ourselves at the "backstage" and
present ourselves at the "front stage". All behavior is a presentation.
Agents of socialization - correct answers ✔✔-family: primary agent of socialization
-school: teaches students to achieve, to compete, to cooperate, and to obey rules; school
teaches work roles of communities, teaches them to feel patriotic,
-peer groups: influence dating, homosexuality , ethnic/racial interactions, delinquency , risk
taking, overall adjustment, styles, clothing ,music
-mass media- play a major role in teaching americans to consume goods; american children
spend more than 53 hours a week using electronics
what is deviance? - correct answers ✔✔variation from a set of norms or shared social
expectations
Deviants - correct answers ✔✔people who violate shared expectations
Traditional Views - correct answers ✔✔deviance is both absolute and immoral.
-The absolutes and moral views: always bad
-medical view: sick people
-statistical view: any variation from a statistical norm is deviant. we are all deviants in some
aspects. (ex: left-handed person)
The relative nature of deviance - correct answers ✔✔-Relativistic view: deviance can only be
interpreted in the sociocultural context in which it happens.
variation by time - correct answers ✔✔an act that was considered deviant in one period of time
may be considered non deviant in another. (ex: cigarette smoking)
Answers
what is socialization? - correct answers ✔✔the lifelong processes for which people are prepared
to participate in society at every level: individual, interpersonal, group, organizational and
institutional.
Is human interaction necessary? - correct answers ✔✔Yes, babies need physical stimulation to
grow.
Children in institutions - correct answers ✔✔Rene Spitz(1946) did a study at two different
children institutes. One of them had very little physical interaction and 34% of the 91 children
had died within two years of the study. The children were born healthy but after being in the
institute for about two years, they weren't fully developed. The children were small,and some
could not walk or sit up. At the other children's institute there was more physical interaction
and the children's development was normal.
isolated children - correct answers ✔✔children who have been isolated from others in their
own homes also show lack of development.
feral children - correct answers ✔✔children who have grown up in the wild.
George Hebert Mead - correct answers ✔✔"Mind, self, and society" (created by students) Mead
recognized how important it is to interact with others in the development of the self. he used
the term "role taking" to describe the process of figuring out how others will act.
role taking - correct answers ✔✔important verstehen(weber's concept referring to a deep
imagining of how things might be and feel for others) technique
,symbolic interaction - correct answers ✔✔when other person knows the meaning of the
symbols(language)
what is cultural capital? - correct answers ✔✔values, attitudes, and knowledge(education)
provided by parents to help us succeed in society.
occupational socialization - correct answers ✔✔to perform well at work, we need to know
certain skills, values and norms.
Charles Horton Cooley - correct answers ✔✔Looking glass self: (1) how we think our behaviors
appear to others (2) how we think others judge our behavior (3) how we feel about our
judgements.... we believe our ideas about ourselves and respond to them with some feeling,
such as pride, mortification, or humiliation
mead and cooley - correct answers ✔✔major difference between social theories of self and
psychological theories of the self:
1.social theories of self: society exists first; individual is shaped by society
2.psychological theories of self; individual develops first, then responds to the society based on
preexisting tendencies to behave in particular way.
self-fulfilling prophecy - correct answers ✔✔developed by Robert Merton; it is a prediction that
causes us to act as if a particular definition of ourselves, others, or a situation were true (even if
it isn't true) as a result, it becomes true because of our actions.
Erving Goffman - correct answers ✔✔Presentation of self; Goffman believed that every
presentation begins with presentation of self.
Impression management - correct answers ✔✔handshaking with friends, quiet with strangers
, Dramaturgical approach - correct answers ✔✔we prepare ourselves at the "backstage" and
present ourselves at the "front stage". All behavior is a presentation.
Agents of socialization - correct answers ✔✔-family: primary agent of socialization
-school: teaches students to achieve, to compete, to cooperate, and to obey rules; school
teaches work roles of communities, teaches them to feel patriotic,
-peer groups: influence dating, homosexuality , ethnic/racial interactions, delinquency , risk
taking, overall adjustment, styles, clothing ,music
-mass media- play a major role in teaching americans to consume goods; american children
spend more than 53 hours a week using electronics
what is deviance? - correct answers ✔✔variation from a set of norms or shared social
expectations
Deviants - correct answers ✔✔people who violate shared expectations
Traditional Views - correct answers ✔✔deviance is both absolute and immoral.
-The absolutes and moral views: always bad
-medical view: sick people
-statistical view: any variation from a statistical norm is deviant. we are all deviants in some
aspects. (ex: left-handed person)
The relative nature of deviance - correct answers ✔✔-Relativistic view: deviance can only be
interpreted in the sociocultural context in which it happens.
variation by time - correct answers ✔✔an act that was considered deviant in one period of time
may be considered non deviant in another. (ex: cigarette smoking)
