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11. We internalize the norms of our culture and come to share values goals sentiments through ?
- A. Individual activities
- B. Families
- C. Group activities
- D. None of these
Explanation: Group activities teach people the norms, values, goals, and sentiments of their culture through interaction and participation. Families are important socialising groups, but they are only one example of group activity.
Correct answer: Group activities12. According to sociologists the critical agent of socialization is thought to be_____________?
- A. peers
- B. the family
- C. formal religion
- D. schools
- E. the media
Explanation: The family is usually regarded as the primary and most influential agent of early socialisation because it first teaches language, norms, values, and basic roles. Schools, peers, religion, and media become important additional agents later or alongside it.
Correct answer: the family13. A set of behavioral expectations that are linked to chronological and biological age that change as we get older are referred to as____________?
- A. maturational motivations
- B. activity norms
- C. age grades
- D. continuity contingencies
- E. disengagement techniques
Explanation: Age grades are socially recognised stages tied to age, each carrying expected behaviours and roles, such as childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Activity norms are expectations about appropriate activities, not age-linked stages themselves.
Correct answer: age grades14. The biggest difference between the theories of Freud and Erikson is that Erikson believed ?
- A. That culture rather than biology plays the biggest part in socialization
- B. that psychology is the dominant theory the social sciences
- C. that biology/genetics explains everything
- D. that there is no such thing as a superego
- E. that men lacks a system of checks and balances in his life
Explanation: Freud placed greater emphasis on biological drives, whereas Erikson explained personality development through psychosocial stages shaped by social relationships and culture. Erikson did not reject biology, but he gave social experience a much larger role.
Correct answer: That culture rather than biology plays the biggest part in socialization15. According to Mead the earliest stage of socialization is called the ___________ stage?
- A. play
- B. maturation
- C. game
- D. infancy
- E. preparatory
Explanation: Mead called the earliest phase of role learning the preparatory stage, when children imitate others without yet understanding roles fully. The play and game stages develop later as children learn specific roles and coordinated rules.
Correct answer: preparatory16. The "looking-glass self" essentially explains ?
- A. our reflections on our own personal shortcomings
- B. our sense of knowledge from all of the agents of socialization
- C. our sense of individuality
- D. our self-concept both positive and negative
- E. our imagination of how others see us
Explanation: Cooley’s looking-glass self develops as we imagine how others see us and form feelings and self-judgments from that imagined response. It is therefore broader than simply reflecting on personal shortcomings.
Correct answer: our imagination of how others see us17. The scientific study of aging is called______________?
- A. gerontology
- B. gerontocracy
- C. the maturational method
- D. maturational reform
- E. global greying
Explanation: Gerontology is the scientific study of ageing and the physical, psychological and social changes associated with it. Gerontocracy instead refers to rule or authority held by older people.
Correct answer: gerontology18. Modern day sociologists have applied Erikson,s model to_______________?
- A. early childhood
- B. adolescence
- C. infancy
- D. young adulthood
- E. later life
Explanation: Erikson's psychosocial theory was later extended beyond childhood and adolescence to explain development in adulthood and later life, including the final stage of ego integrity versus despair. Thus later life is the best option.
Correct answer: later life19. The unique sense of identity that distinguishes each individual from all other individuals is called ________ by sociologists?
- A. personality
- B. self
- C. ego
- D. the I
- E. the me
Explanation: Personality is the distinctive pattern of thoughts, feelings and behaviour that makes one individual different from others. The self refers more specifically to a person's awareness and conception of who they are.
Correct answer: personality20. Family is the basic point of _______ for the children ?
- A. enculturation and socialization
- B. Protection
- C. Learning and growing
- D. None of these
Explanation: Family is the child's first setting for enculturation, where cultural values are learned, and socialisation, where norms and roles are acquired through interaction. Protection and growth are also family functions, but they do not capture the process described as precisely.
Correct answer: enculturation and socialization