LSU - SOCL 2001 - Test #1 Questions with Complete Solutions 100% Solved| Grade A+
What types of Norms are there? (2) Folkways:not critical
Mores: very important
Laws Norms that are defined and enforced by political authority
Sanctions Can be Positive or Negative
rewards for appropriate behavior and penalties for inappropriate behavior
Subculture shared beliefs, values, and/or norms that set them apart from the dominant
culture.
Countercultures Objects/rejects dominant values and norms and seeks alternative lifestyles
Multiculturalism equal representation to the contributions of all the groups
Culture Shock A sense of confusion that accompanies exposure to an unfamiliar
environment
What is Socialization? it is a Social experience by which people learn the expectations of
society.
It is internalized.
Personality consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling.
Why is socialization important?
, Nature vs Nurture
What is Nature? Human development is innate, biological, physiological, due largely to
heredity and is fairly fixed
Nature vs Nurture
What is nurture? Human development is learned, psychological, social, cultural, due largely
to environment. Fairly changeable.
Both nature and nurture are important. Sociologist maintain nurture is more significant.
What did Erving Goffman study and what is it? Dramaturgy
Analyzing social life as a theater
Impression management presenting ourselves in a favorable light.
Anticipatory Socialization the process, facilitated by social interactions, in which non-group-
members learn to take on the values and standards of groups that they aspire to join, so as to
ease their entry into the group and help them interact competently once they have been
accepted by it
Role Taking has 3 stages. What are they? Preparatory Stage, Play stage, Game stage
Preparatory stage (up to age 2) imitate the people around them
Play stage (age 2 to 6) acting out imagined roles, taking the role of the other
What types of Norms are there? (2) Folkways:not critical
Mores: very important
Laws Norms that are defined and enforced by political authority
Sanctions Can be Positive or Negative
rewards for appropriate behavior and penalties for inappropriate behavior
Subculture shared beliefs, values, and/or norms that set them apart from the dominant
culture.
Countercultures Objects/rejects dominant values and norms and seeks alternative lifestyles
Multiculturalism equal representation to the contributions of all the groups
Culture Shock A sense of confusion that accompanies exposure to an unfamiliar
environment
What is Socialization? it is a Social experience by which people learn the expectations of
society.
It is internalized.
Personality consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling.
Why is socialization important?
, Nature vs Nurture
What is Nature? Human development is innate, biological, physiological, due largely to
heredity and is fairly fixed
Nature vs Nurture
What is nurture? Human development is learned, psychological, social, cultural, due largely
to environment. Fairly changeable.
Both nature and nurture are important. Sociologist maintain nurture is more significant.
What did Erving Goffman study and what is it? Dramaturgy
Analyzing social life as a theater
Impression management presenting ourselves in a favorable light.
Anticipatory Socialization the process, facilitated by social interactions, in which non-group-
members learn to take on the values and standards of groups that they aspire to join, so as to
ease their entry into the group and help them interact competently once they have been
accepted by it
Role Taking has 3 stages. What are they? Preparatory Stage, Play stage, Game stage
Preparatory stage (up to age 2) imitate the people around them
Play stage (age 2 to 6) acting out imagined roles, taking the role of the other
