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• Socialization


  The process by which individuals acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values that enable them to become functioning members of their societies
• Folkways


  Mark the distinction between rude and polite behavior, exert a form of social pressure that encourages us to act and interact in certain ways, do not have moral significance, and there are rarely serious consequences or sanctions for violating them
• Norms


  The rules and expectations by which society guides the behavior of individuals, the social facts that exist in our society and independently shape our thoughts and behavior
• Mores


  Stricter than folkways, determine what is considered moral and ethical behavior, structure the difference between right and wrong
• Laws


  Norms that are formally inscribed at the state or federal level and enforced by police or other government agents
• Status


  A social position that a person holds
• Types of status

  • Ascribed status
  • Achieved status
• Ascribed status


  Fixed for an individual at birth, includes those based upon sex, age, race, ethnic group and family background
• Achieved status


  A social position a person takes on voluntarily that reflects personal ability and effort, includes honors students, athletes, nurses, software writers, and thieves
• Becoming a member of society


  Acquiring qualities, behaviors, values, beliefs, personality, looks and/or expressions that make you as a person