SOCIALOGY CHAPTER 1-4 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

SOCIALOGY CHAPTER 1-4 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Abstraction – ANSWER-the human capacity to create general ideas or ways of thinking that are not linked to particular instances .anticipatory socialization - ANSWER-learning the norms and behaviours of the roles to which one aspires .consumerism – ANSWER-the tendency to define ourselves in terms of the goods and services we purchase .cooperation – ANSWER-the human capacity to create a complex social life by sharing resources and working together .countercultures – ANSWER-subversive subcultures that oppose dominant values and seek to replace them .cultural relativism – ANSWER-the belief that all cultures have equal value .culture – ANSWER-the socially transmitted practices, languages, symbols, beliefs, values, ideologies, and material objects that people create to deal with real-life problems .ego - ANSWER-Frued’s term for the mechanism that balances the id and the superego .emotion management – ANSWER-the act of obeying “feeling rules”and responding appropriately to situations