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41. The institution most closely associated with the process of socialization is the______________?
- A. family
- B. Peer group
- C. school
- D. state
Explanation: The family is usually the first and most continuous agency of socialization, teaching language, norms, values, and basic behaviour. Schools and peer groups become important later, while the state is not normally the primary agent.
Correct answer: family42. Which sociologist distinguished between significant others and generalized others ?
- A. George Herbert Mead
- B. Charles Horton Cooley
- C. Erving Goffman
- D. W.I Thomas
Explanation: George Herbert Mead distinguished the specific expectations of significant others from the broader expectations of the generalized other. Cooley is associated instead with the looking-glass self.
Correct answer: George Herbert Mead43. Turning points, a which people change direction in the course of their lives are_______________?
- A. age norms
- B. life events
- C. social clocks
- D. remarkably similar for men and women
Explanation: Life events such as marriage, migration, divorce, or entering employment can redirect a person’s life course and therefore act as turning points. Age norms and social clocks describe expected timing rather than the turning points themselves.
Correct answer: life events44. A form of learning in which the consequences of behavior determine the probability of its future occurrence is called______________?
- A. conditioning
- B. personal efficacy
- C. reflexive behavior
- D. egocentric biasTrace Family History
Explanation: Conditioning is learning in which consequences alter the likelihood that a behaviour will recur, especially in operant conditioning. Personal efficacy concerns belief in one’s ability, not the effect of behavioural consequences.
Correct answer: conditioning45. Which one of the following does Chodorow NOT argue is a consequence for boys and men of separating from their early attachment to their mother ?
- A. feeling their self-esteem threatened by the lack a close relationship
- B. learning that to be a man is to reject being like a woman
- C. feeling endangered by close intimate emotional relationships
- D. developing a detached and analytical approach to the world
Explanation: Chodorow links boys’ early separation from their mothers with rejecting femininity, discomfort with intimacy, and a more detached analytical orientation. The statement about threatened self-esteem is not one of the standard consequences identified in this argument.
Correct answer: feeling their self-esteem threatened by the lack a close relationship46. Socialization is______________?
- A. the formation of an attachment bond between an infant and its carer
- B. a tendency of social theorists to explain everything in terms of social causes
- C. the process of becoming part of a society by learning its norms and values
- D. the historical process by which societies change from traditional to modernTrace Family History
Explanation: Socialization is the lifelong process through which people learn the norms, values, roles and expected behaviour of their society. Attachment describes an infant-carer bond, while modernization describes social change rather than socialization.
Correct answer: the process of becoming part of a society by learning its norms and values47. Harry Harlow conducted study of______________?
- A. Isabelle and the impact of social isolation on the socialization process
- B. Nell and the impact of social isolation on the socialization process
- C. rhesus monkeys that had been raised away from their mothers
- D. nature versus nurture that focused on sociobiology
Explanation: Harry Harlow studied rhesus monkeys separated from their mothers to examine the importance of contact comfort and early attachment. The study showed that nourishment alone does not explain an infant's attachment to a caregiver.
Correct answer: rhesus monkeys that had been raised away from their mothers48. The socializer is also called socializing agent and socialize is also called_______________?
- A. object of socializing process
- B. novice
- C. principal
- D. None of these
Explanation: The socializer is the person or institution transmitting cultural knowledge, while the socializee is the learner or novice receiving it. Thus, novice is the intended term for the socializee.
Correct answer: novice49. Ellis Lee and Peterson developed a research exploring how parents raise their children relative to their class They viewed that lower class parents were more likely to emphasize____________ in their children?
- A. Creativity
- B. Self-reliance
- C. Conformity
- D. None of these
Explanation: Class-socialization research commonly contrasts lower-class emphasis on conformity and obedience with middle-class emphasis on self-direction and independence. Creativity and self-reliance are therefore less consistent with the described lower-class pattern.
Correct answer: Conformity50. Socialization is extended to every part of human life As a result every one becomes both a socializer and a socialize in all encounters with others This concept leaves socialization without a social home. This is the approach of______________?
- A. Arnett
- B. Long & Hadden
- C. Henslin
- D. None of these
Explanation: Long and Hadden criticized an approach that treats socialization as occurring in every interaction, making everyone both socializer and socializee and leaving no clear institutional setting for it. This is the approach identified in the question.
Correct answer: Long & Hadden