Ch. 4 Socializing the Individual Quiz

Instinct is a changing, biologically inherited behavior pattern.

• True

• False

Our personalities are not influenced by whether or not we have siblings or by the number or type of siblings we have

• True

• False

Cultural environments determine the basic types of personalities that will be found in a society

• True

• False

Subcultural differences, such as the type of neighborhood in which an individual is raised, influence personality.

• True

• False

Sociologists have found that the institutionalization of infants can result in slower development of their mental, physical, and emotional skills.

• True

• False

Which term do sociologists use to describe the specific individuals, groups, and institutions that enable socialization to take place?

• looking-glass mentors

• agents of socialization

• role-taking theorists

• total institutions

Which is not an agent of socialization?

• Internet

• peer

• high school

• heredity

What is the term for a primary group composed of individuals of roughly equal age and similar social characteristics?

• family

• mass media

• peer group

• school

Schools intentionally try to transmit cultural values such as

• style of dress

• good citizenship

• manners of speech

• none of these.

Resocialization involves

• a break with past experiences

• learning new values and norms.

• both a and b.

• neither a nor b.