Semester 2 Worksheets Practice

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

• Agents of Socialization

• Total Institution

• School

• Family

The four primary agents of socialization in the are:

• family, work, religion, peers

• school, parents, heredity, cultur

• family, school, peer group, mass media

• mass media, family, school, culture

During her first day of kindergarten, Marie does not understand how the lunch line in the cafeteria works. She hesitates and watches as the older kids pick up their trays and silverware and then get in line. She follows their lead and successfully buys herself lunch. Marie’s experience in the lunchroom is an example of _____.

• Resocialization

• Recidivism

• Socialization

• Desocialization

The process of adopting new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors:

• Resocialization

• Recidivism

• Socialization

• Desocialization

A social condition in which norms are weak, conflicting, or absent:

• Conflict

• Unstable

• Anarchy

• Anomie

Behavior that departs from societal or group norms:

• Negative Behavior

• Positive Behavior

• Deviance

• Dishonesty

Ways to encourage conformity to society’s norms:

• Sanctions

• Social Control 

• Social Structure

• Socialization    

_________refers to a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy.

• Social Stratification

• Social Mobility 

• Social Control

• Social Deviance  

Stratification structure that does not allow for social mobility:

• open-class system

• globalization

• horizontal mobility

• caste system

Hytham moves from a job as a computer programmer to a job as a webpage designer. This is most likely an example of...

• horizontal mobility

• intergenerational mobility

• vertical mobility

• the caste system