Handout 4

• What does the term "socialization" refer to?

  A lifelong social experience developing human potential
• What is enculturation?

  Learning cultural requirements and acquiring appropriate behaviors
• What is one goal of socialization?

  To teach impulse control
• What is another goal of socialization?

  Prepare for and perform certain social roles
• What does socialization cultivate?

  Shared sources of meaning and value
• What important role does the family play in socialization?

  It is the important agent of socialization
• What responsibility does the family bear in socialization?

  Socializing the child
• What does family give the child?

  Social standing within the society
• What is the family to every member?

  The wailing wall
• What kind of agent of socialization is school?

  A formal agent
• What is school the child's first experience of?

  A systematic institution
• What is school responsible for teaching and developing?

  Cognitive skills
• What kind of ground is school?

  A training ground for roles
• How do peer groups shape a child?

  Influential in shaping the child's behavior
• What kind of socialization do peer groups provide?

  Informal socialization
• When does peer influence peak?

  During adolescence
• What is one thing peer groups are responsible for forging?

  Identity
• What do peer groups help children gain?

  Independence from parents
• What kind of feedback is present in mass media?

  No direct feedback
• What kind of process is mass media?

  One way process
• What does the mass media influence on children?

  Enormous influence
• What does mass media affect?

  How an individual perceive a situation
• What is religion a good source of?

  Individual direction
• What does religion provide guidance about?

  Appropriate roles and behaviors
• What idea is religion based on?

  Morality
• What does the workplace put into practice?

  Learning
• What occurs in the workplace?

  Development and acquisition of skills
• What is the workplace the arena of?

  Doing and using what we learned
• What is identity formation?

  Development of an individual's distinct personality
• What does identity formation define?

  Individuals to others and themselves
• What is self-concept?

  Sum of a person's knowledge of self
• What is cultural identity?

  Feeling of identity with a group
• What is ethnic identity based on?

  A presumed common ancestry
• What does national identity divide humans into?

  Groups called nations
• What does religious identity involve?

  Beliefs and practices adhering to beliefs
• What does master identity give order to?

  The operation of other identities
• What is a norm?

  A rule that guides behavior
• What does "normal" refer to?

  Conforming to norms
• What does "normative" refer to?

  What we perceive as normal
• What do proscriptive norms state?


  What we should not do