Across
- 2. A stage in the development of self by Mead in which children are only capable of imitation.
- 4. (two words) The sense of who you are based on similarities to and differences from others.
- 6. (two words) A social position conferred at birth.
- 8. A process in which members of a group favour consensus over rational decision making, producing poor and even disastrous outcomes.
- 9. The lifelong process through which people learn about themselves and their various roles in society and in relation to one another.
- 13. A school of thought that denies free will, emphasizes observable phenomena, and claims that all behaviour is learned from the environment.
- 14. (two words) An interrelated system of social relationships of varying purpose, relevance, intimacy, and importance.
- 18. (three words) The sense of ourselves that we develop based on our perceptions of how others view us.
- 19. (two words) Characteristics presumed to accompany a specific master status.
- 21. Communications that target large audiences in print or in electronic format using audio or images.
- 22. A stage in the development of self by Mead in which children learn to consider several specific roles at the same time and how those roles interact with each other.
- 23. ________ of socialization represents the groups, social institutions, or social settings that have the greatest amount of influence on the developing self.
- 26. (two words) The belief that human behaviour is controlled by genetics.
- 27. (two words) An analytical construct that clearly depicts all of the main features of some social phenomenon but is not an entity that can be found in reality.
- 30. A process that involves radically altering one’s identity by giving up an existing status in exchange for a new one.
- 31. (two words) The sum total of all of the statuses held by a person at a given time.
- 32. (two words) The most influential status in an individual’s status set.
- 34. (two words) A social position obtained through personal actions.
- 36. (two words) The tendency to put in minimal effort on simple group tasks when individual performance cannot be evaluated.
- 37. (two words) Relatively permanent societal structures that govern the behaviour of groups and promote social order.
- 38. (two words) An evaluation of one’s own self-worth.
- 39. (two words) The framework of cultural elements and social patterns in which social interactions take place.
Down
- 1. A formal organization model consisting of an explicit chain of authority and a set of procedures and protocols that guide the relationships and processes that exists within it.
- 3. (two words) A situation in which incompatible role demands exist between two or more commonly held statuses.
- 5. (two words) An isolated social system in which certain individuals are housed, looked after, and socialized apart from the wider society.
- 7. _____________ theory is a perspective that views human development as a dynamic process of reciprocal interaction in which individuals play an important role in shaping the environment in which they develop.
- 10. (two words) The process by which individuals learn about the roles associated with a particular status before taking on that status.
- 11. The behavioural component of a given status.
- 12. The belief that social behaviour evolved from the need to reproduce and survive.
- 15. (two words) The portion of an individual’s sense of self that renders him or her unique from others.
- 16. (two words) The tendency for people to do better or simple tasks, but worse on complex tasks, when they are in the presence of others and their individual performance can be evaluated.
- 17. (two words) Two or more people who share relevant cultural elements and interact with regular frequency.
- 20. A form of social influence in which individuals change their behaviour in order to adhere to group norms.
- 24. A stage in the development of self by Mead in which children learn to take on roles that another person might have.
- 25. (two words) A perception that another person can be relied upon and has your best interests at heart.
- 28. (two words) Refers to how individuals evaluate themselves in terms of appearance, merit, and abilities based on how they compare to others.
- 29. (two words) The portion of an individual’s sense of self derived from membership in social groups.
- 33. (two words) A situation in which incompatible role demands exist within a single status.
- 35. A recognized social position that exists independently of any given individual who may occupy it.