Socialization and social structure

What do sociologists call a continuing process whereby individuals acquire personal identities and learn the norms, values, behaviors, and social skills appropriate to his or her social position?

• sociology
• socialization
• culture
• a mouth full

Which agent of socialization has the most impact on our development?

• Education
• Family
• Mass Media
• Peer Groups

Breaking with past experiences and learning new values and mores

• Resocialization
• Internalization
• Socialization
• Assimilation

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

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

Which of the following are NOT an agent of socialization?

• family
• peers
• school
• food

Harlow's monkey research proved that

• touch is the most important part of bonding 
• food is the most important part of bonding
• monkeys don't need mothers as much as humans do 
• motherless monkeys are just as intelligent as normal monkeys

Conducted Attachment studies with infant monkeys

• Harry Harlow
• Jean Piaget
• Mary Ainsworth
• John Watson

Being a teenager is an

• ascribed status
• achieved status
• master status
• active status

A person's race or gender is generally considered an

• ascribed status
• achieved status
• master status
• informal status

Sociologists use __________ to analyze the broad features of society.

• interactional sociology

• macrosociology

• chaos theory

• microsociology