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Chapter 2 Practice Quiz
Socialization: Becoming a Member of Society
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Who argued that humans before society were "happy savages"?
Émile Durkheim
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Max Weber
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Karl Marx
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Which one of the following is NOT a conclusion that Erving Goffman came to in his research?
When we meet others, we work to manage their impression of us.
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We manage impressions by changing our setting or our appearance.
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Individuals try to "smooth out" social interactions to make them more comfortable.
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We manage impressions by adopting the behaviours of professional actors.
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Which term refers to the lifelong process of learning our society's norms, customs, and ideologies?
Learning theory
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Development
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Socialization
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Parenting
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When children internalize social rules and values through socialization, they learn to conform to which of the following?
Group thought
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Roles
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Theories
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Phases
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Feminist theorists research patriarchy, a system within some human societies defined by what?
Male domination
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Female domination
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Race wars
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Class conflict
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Which theoretical perspective examines how socialization is negotiated through our connections with other people?
Symbolic interactionism
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Conflict theory
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Structural functionalism
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Feminist theory
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In which process of socialization do individuals rehearse potential roles that they may play in the future?
Resocialization
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Anticipatory socialization
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Primary socialization
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Secondary socialization
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Which one of the following stages of role-taking is NOT a part of George Herbert Mead's theory on socialization?
Imitating significant others
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Pretending to be other people
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Playing video games with your parents
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Playing games with complex rules
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What theory did Erving Goffman develop to explain social life as a stage and individuals as actors portraying roles?
Class perspective
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Dramedy
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Surgical perspective
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Dramaturgical perspective
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According to dramaturgical perspective, which of the following is an example of a restaurant's "front stage"?
waiting on the tables
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working in the kitchen
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washing dishes
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managing the kitchen staff
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Socialization provides us with the skills necessary for participating in society.
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An important part of socialization is the process of learning to perform roles.
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Early structural functionalist Talcott Parsons believed the parts of society were like parts of the human body.
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The fastest growing age group in Canada is the millennial age group.
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The dramaturgical perspective is based on the idea that social life is like a stage and individuals are actors on that stage.
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Sociologists recognize the transition to adulthood is harder for young people today because the larger social structure is creating barriers to this transition and there's less support for overcoming these barriers.
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Structural functionalist theorists differ from conflict theorists in that they do not theorize socialization as a top-down process.
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Our gender socialization is complete by the time we enter adulthood.
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Symbolic interactionists believe that our identity and sense of self comes from others.
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George Herbert Mead argued that children develop their sense of self through four stages of role-taking.
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