Chapter 5 Learning Objectives

5.1 Define socialization and the process of normalization.

5.2 Identify the primary of agents of socialization that operate over the life course.

5.3 Understand the difference between a status and a role and describe how interactional performances sustain the social self.

5.4 Define groups and distinguish different kinds of groups.

5.5 Distinguish networks from bureaucracies as distinct organizational forms of group life in modern societies.