Assessment 1. Reviewing Vocabulary a. Personality is the attitudes, beliefs, values, and behaviors associated with an individual b. The cultural process of learning to participate in group life is called socialization c. Role taking allows us to assume the viewpoint of another person and use that viewpoint to shape our self-concept d. Total institutions are places in which people are separated from the rest of society and controlled by officials in charge e. The process of adopting new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors is known as resocialization f. An image of yourself based on what you believe others think of you is called looking-glass self. g. Anticipatory socialization is the voluntary process of preparing to accept new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors. h. The integrated conception of the norms, values, and beliefs of one’s society is called the generalized other. 2. Reviewing the Facts a. The involvement of the rhesus monkeys suggests that in the same situation human babies would choose the cloth mother as well because even in human children close contact is just as important as food, sometimes even more important. b. Socialization from the viewpoint of symbolic interactionism is explained in 5 concepts: the self concept (an image of yourself as having an identity separate from other people), the looking-glass self (an image of yourself based on what you believe others think about you), significant others (people that are more important to us than others), role taking (allows us to see ourselves through the eyes of someone else: imitation stage, play stage, and game stage) and generalized other (an integrated conception of the norms, values, and beliefs of one’s community or society). c. The three major sociological perspectives of sociology are functionalism (stresses how socialization contributes to a stable society), conflict theory (views socialization as a way for the powerful to keep things the same), and symbolic interactionism (holds that socialization is the major determinant of human nature). d. The concept of role taking relates to the song lyric “Walk a mile in My Shoes” because it is when someone pretends to be someone to see how that person sees them. When walking in someone else’s shoes you are taking the role of them to understand them and how they see you. e. The Four Majors Agents of Socialization 1. Family 2. Schooling 3. Peer Group/Friends 4. Mass Media f. Total institutions are places where residents are separated from the rest of society. The residents are able to manage their own lives; they are controlled and manipulated by whoever is in charge. The end purpose of this control is to permanently change the residents. g. Resocialization is the process in which people adopt new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors but this is usually involuntary, done by total institutions. Anticipatory socialization is the process of preparing (in advance) for new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors, but this time it is a voluntary change. 3. Thinking Critically a. Media reinforces these ideals of certain body types for people by continuing to show those body types. The actors in movies and television have the thin body type desired in women and the muscular body desired in men. When the same body is only ever seen in media it becomes what the expectation is and what the beauty standard that kids and especially teens think they have to achieve. An example of this is the skinny size 2 instagram models having more likes and followers than a size 20 model that is just as beautiful, but because she doesn’t fit in the American beauty standard she has less likes. Or how companies already have muscular men promoting protein powders so it is like well if you take this product you can look like me and be handsome. b. If I had to lose tiktok for a day I would overall be fine, but I would miss out on the laughter I get from watching others make jokes. I would also be out of the loop. People make references to tikotk sounds all the time and if I hadn’t heard the sound I could be left out even if it was only for a day.