The institution most closely associated with the process of socialization is the:
family
peer group
school
state
Which sociological perspective emphasizes that schools in the United States foster competition through built-in systems of reward and punishment?
functionalist perspective
conflict perspective
interactionist perspective
psychological perspective
In studying the strategies that college students employ to create desired appearances after grades have been awarded, sociologists Daniel Albas and Cheryl Albas drew upon the concept of impression management developed by:
George Herbert Mead
Charles Horton Cooley
Erving Goffman
Jean Piaget
On the first day of basic training in the army, a recruit has his civilian clothes replaced with army "greens," has his hair shaved off, loses his privacy, and finds that he must use a communal bathroom. All of these humiliating activities are part of a(n):
significant other
impression management
degradation ceremony
face-work
Isabelle was:
reared in an interracial family
kept in almost total seclusion for the first six years of her life
subjected to mistreatment in a mental institution
a child whose language skills were of genius caliber
Which sociologist distinguished between significant others and generalized others?
W. I. Thomas
A person does poorly on a college chemistry test and later tells a friend: "The exam wasn't fair! There were trick questions and it covered material that we weren't assigned!" This is an example of:
reverse socialization
studied nonobservance
anticipatory socialization
Harry Harlow conducted a study of:
Isabelle and the impact of social isolation on the socialization process
Nell and the impact of social isolation on the socialization process
rhesus monkeys that had been raised away from their mothers
nature versus nurture that focused on sociobiology
Jean Piaget found that although newborns have no self in the sense of a looking-glass image, they are quite:
ethnocentric
self-centered
other-directed
deterministic
Which term was used by Wilbert Moore to refer to reluctantly adjusting to the more unpleasant aspects of one's job?
commitment
role taking
conditioning