Week 4 Quiz

A classmate says socialization is finished once a child has been raised. Which statement matches the course's definition of socialization?

Select one.

• It is the lifelong process of learning a group's culture and developing a self
• It is finished once a child has been raised and leaves home
• It is the biological growth that turns a newborn into an adult
• It is the set of penalties a group uses to enforce its norms

In the socialization scene set (illustrative scenes constructed for this course), a youth soccer team has a pregame huddle and its own inside jokes. Which agent of socialization does this scene show?

Select one.

• The family
• The school
• Peers
• The media

In the scene set's school scene, students raise a hand to speak, line up when the bell rings, and do what the teacher says. No report card grades these habits. What does this scene illustrate?

Select one.

• The hidden curriculum: unwritten lessons about obedience, punctuality, and hierarchy
• A secret syllabus that teachers keep hidden from parents and students
• The official subjects a school lists in its course catalog
• Resocialization, because students unlearn the self they had before school

On the first day at a new job at a hardware store, a new hire imagines the shift lead thinking "slow, but careful." Which step of Cooley's looking-glass self is this?

Select one.

• The first step, imagined appearance
• The second step, imagined judgment
• The third step, self-feeling
• The generalized other

Which pairing of theorist, year, and idea is accurate?

Select one.

• Mead (1934): the looking-glass self
• Cooley (1902): the generalized other
• Goffman (1961): the game stage
• Mead (1934): the "I" and the "me"

In the scene set's soccer game, a player keeps in mind what the goalkeeper, the defenders, and every teammate will do before passing, and plays by the game's shared rules. Which description fits Mead's account?

Select one.

• The preparatory stage, with imitation and no understanding
• The play stage, taking on one other person's role at a time
• The game stage, with the shared rules as the generalized other
• The game stage, with the coach's opinion as the generalized other

The scene set compares a boot camp, where recruits live, sleep, eat, and train in one place under one authority, with a strict office that has a dress code and close supervision. Which statement applies the total-institution test correctly?

Select one.

• Both are total institutions, since each has strict rules about dress
• Only the boot camp is one, since one authority runs all of daily life there
• Only the office is one, since supervisors watch its workers all day
• Neither is one, since only a prison can be a total institution

In the scene set, a nursing student on a clinical placement practices how nurses talk to patients before holding the job. Which idea does this scene show?

Select one.

• Resocialization
• The life course
• A degradation ceremony
• Anticipatory socialization

Applied to the school's unspoken code, which perspective asks whose values are taught as normal and who benefits when people learn to accept a hierarchy, and at what level does it work?

Select one.

• Structural functionalism, at the macro level
• Conflict theory, at the macro level
• Symbolic interactionism, at the micro level
• Conflict theory, at the micro level

Select every statement about the three perspectives on socialization that matches this course.

Select every option that applies.

• Symbolic interactionism, the home of Cooley's and Mead's ideas, works at the micro level
• Structural functionalism sees socialization passing shared skills and values to new members
• Because conflict theory sees inequality, the functionalist reading of socialization must be wrong
• One school routine can fit all three perspectives at once, each answering a different question
• Nature versus nurture is a contest, and the three perspectives show that nurture wins