sociology vocab

process of learning to participate in a group

• Socialization

• Role Taking

• Life Cycle

• Reference Group

An image of yourself as having an identity separate from other people

• Generalized Other-

• Total Institutions

• Self concept

• Anticipatory Socialization-

An image of yourself based on what you believe others think of you

• Socialization

• Peer Group

• Desocialization

• Looking Glass self-

those people whose reactions are most important to your self-concept or who forms your “looking glass”

• Significant Others

• Resocialization

• Mass Media

• Self concept

Assuming another person’s viewpoint and using that viewpoint to shape self-concept

• Life Cycle

• Looking Glass self

• Role Taking

• Reference Group

Integrated conception of the norms, values, and beliefs of one’s community or society

• Significant Others

• Generalized Other

• Anticipatory Socialization

• Total Institutions

set of individuals of roughly the same age and interests

• Peer Group

• Role Taking

• Desocialization

• Socialization

means of communication designed to reach the general population

• social networking

• word of mouth

• postal service

• Mass Media

the stages of development individuals pass through between birth and death

• evolution

• Life Cycle

• Aging process

• Growth and Development

places in which people are separated from the rest of society and controlled by officials in charge

• Prisons

• Isolated communities

• Segragated areas

• Total Institutions