Socializing the Individual (Ch. 4)

What did Mead call the part of the self that is creative, unpredictable, and spontaneous?

• the role-taking self
• the “me”
• the “I”
• the generalized self

Which of the following is important to develop during adolescence?

• large motor skills
• parenting skills
• courtship skills
• critical thinking skills

Which of the following is an example of a total institution?

• a day camp
• a prison
• a public university
• a hospital emergency room

The process of assuming a viewpoint and using that to shape our self-concept

• role taking
• anticipatory socialization
• deviance
• desocialization

The transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to children

• Heredity
• Instinct
• Sociobiology
• Personality

The debate on inherited genetic characteristics versus environment and social learning is also called

• achievement versus failure.
• nature versus nurture.
• resocialization versus instinct.
• looking-glass self versus generalized other.

Process by which we develop an idea of self based on how we think we appear to others

• restrictive behavior.
• nature versus nurture.
• the generalized other.
• the looking-glass self.

The most important agent of socialization in almost every society is 

• family
• peer group
• school
• mass media

The sum total of a person’s behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are characteristic of an individual.

• Instinct
• Personality
• Looking Glass Self
• Sociobiology

The part of self that is aware of the expectations and attitudes of society; the socialized self

• me

• imaginary self

• tabula rasa

• looking glass self