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Agents of socialization are mutually exclusive and do not overlap.

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The indie rock band the Halo Benders once sang the following: Part environment And part heredity What we're born with And what's been fed to me What issue is being referenced in this song?


A) the nature vs. nurture debate
B) impression management
C) dramaturgy
D) role conflict

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Research has been conducted regarding why teens engage in smoking and other deviant behaviors. The most important factor in statistically predicting whether or not a teen will engage in a particular deviant behavior is the presence or absence of peers who are also involved in that behavior. This is probably because the other teens are acting


A) in ways that are closely connected to the family.
B) in cooperation with schools and the media.
C) as the most powerful, long-term force in their friends' lives.
D) as agents of socialization.

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Read the quote from Freud below, which describes a part of the mind as he theorized it. "It is the dark, inaccessible part of our personality, what little we know of it we have learnt from our study of the dream-work and of the construction of neurotic symptoms. . . . We all approach [it] with analogies: we call it a chaos, a cauldron full of seething excitations." Which part of the mind was he talking about?


A) the id
B) the ego
C) the superego
D) the conscience

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Which of the following is a step in Charles Cooley's model of the looking-glass self?


A) We interpret others' reactions to us.
B) We imagine our lives as a movie.
C) We experience ourselves in private.
D) We imagine how we look in popular fashions.

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According to Charles Cooley, why can there be no sense of self without society?

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Describe how television can be a powerful and covert agent of socialization.

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What does the concept of the looking-glass self help explain?


A) why it is so difficult to see ourselves as others do
B) how we develop a self-concept based on our perceptions of others' judgments of us
C) how young children come to realize that they have an identity separate from others
D) why we respond to the generalized other

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What is the relationship between Sister Pauline Quinn's program, in which prison inmates train service and therapy dogs, and sociological concepts of the self and of interaction?


A) The process of training dogs helps to resocialize prisoners.
B) The program demonstrates globalization, as it has branches in most prisons in the
United States.
C) Quinn's program was founded on Freudian principles including the id, ego, and superego.
D) Quinn's program was based on the work of George Herbert Mead, who laid the groundwork for research on the self and interaction.

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What is resocialization? Give an example of a circumstance that would necessitate resocialization.

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Some researchers have argued that in highly individualistic cultures, such as that of the United States, the emotion of shame is usually triggered by individual actions. However, in more collectivist cultures like Japan's, shame is linked to groups. This would seem to indicate that


A) the United States is far more dramaturgically inclined than other cultures.
B) Japanese people have more trouble with emotion work than do Americans.
C) emotions have a strong genetic component.
D) emotions are not only personal, because the expression of emotions can also be social and cultural.

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According to the symbolic interactionist George Herbert Mead, playing organized games is important for an older child's development of the self because


A) game playing involves learning emotional self-control.
B) game playing reinforces the primary group ties that are essential to emotional well-being.
C) game playing teaches strict obedience to rules and norms.
D) game playing involves learning to anticipate and coordinate with other players' actions.

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Which of the following describes an interaction that occurs in copresence?


A) talking to your friends on Facebook
B) Skyping with your sister
C) having coffee with your mother
D) emailing your grandparents

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Both sides are partially right in the nature vs. nurture debate.

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A high school football coach is worried about how he should handle his roster. On one hand, it's his job to try to win as many games as possible, which means playing the best players. On the other hand, his contract also requires him to try to allow every member of the team to meaningfully participate. The tension he feels is the result of


A) role strain.
B) feeling rules.
C) role conflict.
D) emotion work.

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Pablo comes from a low-income family, but he worked hard in school and earned a full scholarship to Stanford University. Pablo is worried that his peers and professors will recognize his background and treat him differently, so he wears new clothes and attempts to hide his accent on the first day of classes. When Pablo goes home for the weekend, he leaves his new clothes behind in his dorm and does not mask his accent. Which sociological concept best explains Pablo's behavior and interactions with others?


A) the looking-glass self
B) impression management
C) the dual nature of the self
D) psychoanalysis

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What happens to the development of feral children who are raised without significant social contact? What does this demonstrate about the importance of socialization?

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Why did Charles Cooley believe that the self is created largely through social interaction?

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Cooley believed that our conce...

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Someone who is newly divorced after a long marriage and now wants to start dating again may find that many of the norms of dating have changed. Behaviors like splitting the check or talking about safe sex may be new for this person. This process of having to learn and adjust to the new rules of dating is an example of


A) adaptation.
B) copresence.
C) resocialization.
D) impression management.

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Sociologists examine financial collapses such as those of the 1930s. These often occurred because rumors of insolvency, when believed by enough depositors, resulted in real bank failures. What sociological concept describes this phenomenon?


A) expressions given off
B) the Thomas theorem
C) dramaturgy
D) the generalized other

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