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Following Is a List of Terms and Then a Series

Question 59

Matching

Following is a list of terms and then a series of statements. Match the best term to each statement by filling in the letter before the term in the appropriate blank.

Premises:

Responses:

____ Individuals or groups most influential in the process of teaching children the norms and values of a particular culture.

Socialization

____ A group of people born around the same time period.

Middle friendship circles

____ Patterns of change from infancy to adult.

Popular clique

____ A feeling that minority members of a group feel because they are different from the majority members.

Social isolates

____ An aspect of life-course sociology referring to our ability to make decisions and control our destiny.

Wannabes

____ The third stage of self-development in which children are capable of managing several different roles.

Contextual dissonance

____ Learning expectations about how to behave related to one's gender.

Idiocultures

____ The attitudes of the whole community.

Turning point

____ An aspect of life-course sociology referring to how historic events affect development for different birth cohorts.

Life course

____ Second stage of self-development in which children begin to use language to make-believe as they play others' roles.

Looking-glass self

____ The process of personal change from infancy to late adulthood resulting from personal and societal events and from transitions into and out of social roles.

Agents of socialization

____ Any event that causes significant changes in the course of our lives.

Play stage

____ An aspect of life-course sociology referring to our relationships with other people.

Game stage

____ The reliance on responses of others in the development of the self.

Preparatory stage

____ Smaller circles of friends that are less hierarchical.

Life events

____ Children with an active social life and with the largest number of friends.

Referential beliefs

____ First stage of self-development in which children simply mimic the attitudes and behaviors of their parents and caretakers.

Generalized other

____ When children develop according to expectations of a group or society.

Birth cohort

____ Learning about one's ethnic and racial identity in a given culture.

Historical context

____ In status characteristics theory, beliefs held in common by people about the usual relationships between particular status characteristics and reward levels.

Linked lives

____ Children that have trouble establishing any relationships with those in other cliques.

Timing

____ When the "normal trajectory" of our lives is altered by a life event or role change.

Racial socialization

____ The ways in which individuals attempt to align their own thoughts, feelings, and behavior to fit into a group or society.

Agency

____ An aspect of life-course sociology referring to incidence, duration, and sequence of roles, and to the relevant expectations and beliefs based on age.

Gender socialization

____ Children that want to be popular but do not quite get accepted into this group.

Pygmalion effect

____ A system of knowledge, beliefs, behaviors, and customs shared by an interacting group to which members refer and employ as a basis of further interaction.

Children's cultural routines

Life Stages