Culture Flashcards - Sociology

Define Adolescence

The time from puberty to 18, when a person moves from childhood to adulthood

Define Agency

The ability to make independent choices and act on them

Define Anticipatory Socialization

Preparing for future roles in life

Define Degraduation ceremony

Process where new members in an institution lose an old identity and gain a new one

Define Anticipatory socialization

Preparing for future roles in life

Define Doing gender

Acting in ways that is expected of your gender

Define Epigenetics

How the environment affects how genes are experessed

Define Game stage

Child stage where they understand roles and follow rules

Define Gender schema

Mental framework that helps people understand gender differences

Define Generalized other

Society’s shared expectations about behavior

Define Hidden cirriculum

Unwritten lessons in school about norms and behavior

Define ‘I and me’

I is the active self, me is the self shaped by others

Define Liquid modernity

Modern life that is fast-changing

Define looking glass self

Self-image shaped by how others see us

Define mass media

Communication to large audiences

Define moral career

The changes in how a person becomes responsible for their actions

Define moral development

Learning what is right and wrong in society

Define Nature

The influence of genetic makeup on self development

Define Nurture

Social environment’s effects on self development

Define peer group

People of similar age and status who share interests

Define Play stage

A time when children imitate roles that another person would have

Define Preparatory stage

A time when children are only capable of imitation

Define Resocialization

When old behaviors are removed and replaced by new ones

Define Rite of passage

Life transition

Define Self

A person’s identity which is shaped through social interaction

Define Social expectation

Norms that guide how people should act

Define Socialization

Learning society’s norms and expectations

Define Total Institution

Places where people are isolated from the rest of society (prison)