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- A. the contact hypothesis
- B. reverse discrimination
- C. scapegoating
- D. a self-fulfilling prophecy
Explanation: This is a self-fulfilling prophecy: repeated expectations influence a person’s self-concept and behaviour until the expected outcome…
Correct answer: a self-fulfilling prophecy- A. interactionist perspective
- B. conflict perspective
- C. functionalist perspective
- D. anomie theoryAccess Government Careers
Explanation: The teacher-expectancy effect is an interactionist example of a self-fulfilling prophecy: teachers’ expectations can shape how they treat…
Correct answer: interactionist perspective- A. mothers who are living in poverty cannot afford to give their children the resources that other children enjoy
- B. mothering is a socially constructed activity identified in the narratives of new mothers
- C. children deprived of an early secure attachment to their mother are prone to suffer physically intellectually and socially in later life
- D. deprivation is something children inherit usually through their mothers' side
Explanation: Bowlby argued that prolonged deprivation of an early maternal attachment could harm a child’s later emotional, intellectual and social…
Correct answer: children deprived of an early secure attachment to their mother are prone to suffer physically intellectually and socially in later life- A. the unconscious mass of instinctive drives that may be repressed
- B. the self as a whole an unstable mix of conscious and unconscious elements
- C. the conscious part of the mind that regulates emotional drives on a practical rational level
- D. the neurotic part of the mind that longs for belonging and may suffer an inferiority complexPeople & Society
Explanation: In Freud’s model, the ego is the conscious, reality-oriented part of the mind that mediates between instinctive desires and practical…
Correct answer: the conscious part of the mind that regulates emotional drives on a practical rational level- A. we internalize and take on social roles from a pre-existing framework
- B. we create and negotiate our roles through interaction with others
- C. social roles are not fixed or stable but fluid and pluralistic
- D. roles have to be learned to suppress unconscious motivations
Explanation: Role-learning theory treats roles as patterns that people acquire and internalise through an existing social framework.
Correct answer: we internalize and take on social roles from a pre-existing framework- A. George Herbert Mead
- B. Charles Horton Cooley
- C. Erving Goffman
- D. Harry Harlow
Explanation: Charles Horton Cooley coined the idea of the looking-glass self, in which people develop self-image by imagining how others see and judge…
Correct answer: Charles Horton Cooley- A. sex
- B. preparation for death
- C. socialization
- D. love and work
Explanation: Middle adulthood commonly centres on maintaining intimate relationships and productive work, often expressed as the developmental tasks of…
Correct answer: love and work- A. social comparisons
- B. self-ethnography
- C. introspective rejuvenation
- D. none of the above
Explanation: Self-esteem develops partly through social comparison, as people evaluate their abilities and worth against those of others.
Correct answer: social comparisons- A. culture
- B. socialization
- C. social communication
- D. definition of the situation
Explanation: Socialization is the lifelong process through which people learn society’s knowledge, values, attitudes and behavioural expectations.
Correct answer: socialization- A. Self
- B. Language
- C. rudimentary personality
- D. None of these
Explanation: Without human communication, a person would not develop a socially formed self, language or normal personality, although some rudimentary…
Correct answer: rudimentary personality- A. Individual is the product of social group within which he is socialized
- B. Biology being the major constraints does not allow any change in human nature hence socialization does not change much of human individual nature
- C. The nature-nurture controversy has ended in favor of nurture and the bio-sociologists have failed to promote their thesis
- D. None of these
Explanation: Sociologists emphasise that individual personality and identity develop within social groups through interaction and socialization.
Correct answer: Individual is the product of social group within which he is socialized- A. school
- B. family
- C. television
- D. peer group
Explanation: The family is normally the main agent of primary socialization because it provides a child’s earliest and most continuous learning of…
Correct answer: family- A. both boys and girls being closely attached to their mothers, but then boys breaking away
- B. girls being attached to their mothers but then breaking away
- C. boys being attached to their fathers and girls to their mothers
- D. both boys and girls being closely attached to their fathers, but girls breaking away
Explanation: Chodorow argued that both sexes initially form close attachments to their mothers, but boys must separate psychologically to establish a…
Correct answer: both boys and girls being closely attached to their mothers, but then boys breaking away- A. functionalist perspective
- B. conflict perspective
- C. interactionist perspective
- D. labeling theory
Explanation: Interactionism focuses on face-to-face communication, meanings and relationship-building through shared symbols.
Correct answer: interactionist perspective- A. kept in almost total seclusion for the first six years of her life
- B. reared in an interracial family
- C. subjected to mistreatment in a mental institution
- D. a child whose language skills were of genius calibre
Explanation: Isabelle was a well-known case of a child who was kept in almost total isolation during her early years, severely limiting language and…
Correct answer: kept in almost total seclusion for the first six years of her life- A. Role theory
- B. Internalization theory
- C. Symbolic theory
- D. None of these
Explanation: Internalization theory describes socialisation as learning social roles and incorporating society’s cognitive frameworks into one’s own…
Correct answer: Internalization theory- A. Were over socialized
- B. Were given extremely protected environment
- C. Not socialized by adults while they were growing
- D. None of these
Explanation: Cases of severely neglected children show what happens when adults fail to provide the interaction needed for socialisation.
Correct answer: Not socialized by adults while they were growing- A. Narrow Socialization
- B. Broad Socialization
- C. cultural impact
- D. None of these
Explanation: Narrow socialisation stresses conformity, obedience and adherence to established norms, a pattern often associated in introductory…
Correct answer: Narrow Socialization- A. Obedience and Conformity
- B. Independence and self-expression
- C. both a and b
- D. None of these
Explanation: Broad socialisation encourages people to develop individuality, independence and self-expression.
Correct answer: Independence and self-expression- A. Developmental
- B. Secondary
- C. Primary socialization
- D. None of these
Explanation: Family is usually the main agent of primary socialisation, through which children first learn language, values, behaviour and basic social…
Correct answer: Primary socialization