FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SOCIOLOGY CH. 4

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SOCIOLOGY (CH. 4)

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-Guarantee passing score -29 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: A ritual marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another

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rite of passage Question 2: A research orientation in which sociologists and other social scientists look closely at the social factors that influence people throughout their lives, from birth to death

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life course approach Question 3: Processes of socialization in which a person "rehearses" for future positions, occupations, and social relationships

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anticipatory socialization Question 4: An aspect of the socialization process within some total institutions, in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals

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degradation ceremony

Question 5: The socialized self that plans actions and judges performances based on the standards we have learned from others

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Me Question 6: Suppose a clerk tries to appear busier than he or she is when a supervisor happens to be watching. Erving Goffman would say this is a form of what>

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impression management

Question 7: The efforts people make to maintain a proper image and avoid public

embarrassment

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face-work Question 8: According to child psychologist Jean Piaget's cognitive theory of development, children begin to use words and symbols to distinguish objects and ideas during which stage in the development of the thought process?

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the preoperational stage Question 9: The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life

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resocialization

Question 10: A distict identity that sets us apart from others

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self Question 11: A concept that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions

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looking-glass self

Question 12: The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children

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sandwich generation Question 13: The lifelong process through which people learn the attitudes, values, and behaviors appropriate for members of a particular culture

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socialization Question 14: The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another and responding from that imagined viewpoint

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role taking Question 15: The attitudes, viewpoints, and expectations of society as a whole that a child take into account in his or her behavior

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generalized other

Question 16: What is true about peer groups?

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1) Peers can be the source of harassment as wells as support, 2) Peer groups increasingly assume the role of Mead's generalized other, 3) Boys and girls are socialized differently Question 17: What social scientist used the phrase looking-glass self to emphasize that the self is the product of our social interactions with other people?

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Charles Horton Cooley Question 18: Which social institution is considered to be the most important agent of socialization in the U.S., especially for children?

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the family

Question 19: A gesture, object, or word that forms the basis of human communication

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symbol Question 20: The theory that children's thought progresses through four stages of development

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cognitive theory of development Question 21: An institution that regulates all aspects of a person's life under a single authority, such as a prison, the military, a mental hospital, or a convent

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total institution

Question 22: George Herbert Mead is best known for his theory of what?

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the self Question 23: Expectations regarding the proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females

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gender role Question 24: A view of social interaction in which people are seen as theatrical performers

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dramaturgical approach

Question 25: A stressful period of self-evaluation that begins at about age 40

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midlife crisis Question 26: The altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences

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impression management