Unit 3: Socialization and Social Structure

What is socialization?

• Cultural process of learning to participate in group life

• The unique way that an individual adapts to his/her environment

• patterns of behavior that pass on from one generation to the next

• role within the social structure that you fill

What is personality?

• Cultural process of learning to participate in group life

• The unique way that an individual adapts to his/her environment

• patterns of behavior that pass on from one generation to the next

• role within the social structure that you fill

What is social structure?

• Cultural process of learning to participate in group life

• The unique way that an individual adapts to his/her environment

• patterns of behavior that pass on from one generation to the next

• role within the social structure that you fill

What is social status?

• Cultural process of learning to participate in group life

• The unique way that an individual adapts to his/her environment

• patterns of behavior that pass on from one generation to the next

• role within the social structure that you fill

When does socialization begin?

• at birth

• 6 months

• 5 years

• 18 years

When is socialization the most important?

• early life

• transitional adulthood

• middle years

• old age

In Henry Harlow's rhesus monkey experiment which mother did the monkeys spend the most amount of time with, regardless of circumstance?

• cloth mother

• wire mother

Children that grow up without being socialized

• rabid children

• feral children

• wild children

• Kansas children

parents might make you want to rebel against their ideas

• parental characteristics

• birth order

• heredity

• cultural environment

older siblings have more responsibilities earlier on

• parental characteristics

• birth order

• heredity

• cultural environment