J2-MEMBER UCSP

• Social Institutions


  • Family/Relatives
  • School
  • Church
  • Friends
• Rules/Regulations/Laws


  • Consequences
• Socialization


  The process in which we acquire knowledge, language, values, skills, and habits of a society
• Enculturation


  The process of being socialized into a certain culture
• Socialization is the process which we learn the norms, customs, values, and roles of the society from birth to death
• Enculturation is the process by which we learn the requirements, behavior, and values of our surrounding culture
• Identity Formation


  The development of a distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity in which characteristics are possessed and by which a person is known or recognized
• Identity Development Aspects


  • Self-Concept
  • Self-Esteem
• Identity Statuses


  • Foreclosure
  • Identity Confusion/Diffusion
  • Moratorium
  • Identity Achievement
• Conformity


  A commitment to social norms, behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards
• Deviance


  A behavior that goes against a group's or society's rules of conduct, expectations, or social norms
• Types of Deviance


  • Crime (Formal Deviance)
  • Informal Deviance (violation of informal norms)
• Social Control


  Rules and restrictions that shape, supervise, and regulate behaviors of individuals and societies
• Types of Social Control


  • Informal Social Control (strategies adopted in interpersonal relationships)
  • Formal Social Control (laws, rules, and regulations enforced officially by social and political authorities)
• Human Dignity


  A recognition that human beings possess a special value intrinsic to their humanity regardless of gender, status, race, religion, abilities, etc.
• Human Rights


  • Rights to life, liberty, property and security
  • Rights to equal protection of the law and due process
  • Freedom from slavery
  • Freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment
  • Right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty
  • Freedom of expression, association, and assembly
  • Right to marry and found a family
  • Right to travel
• Common Good


  Anything that benefits and is naturally shared by all members of a given community