Chapter 4: Socialization: Becoming Human and Humane

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. The basic building block of socialization through which a child is shaped into a human being, learns his or her culture, and becomes a member of a society is ______.

a. imitation

b. interaction

c. self-reflection

d. role taking

Learning Objective: 4.2: Predict the impact of isolation and neglect on children.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Socialization

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Which of the following is TRUE of sociobiology?

a. Most sociologists embrace sociobiology.

b. Sociobiologists assert that our genetic makeup wires us for social behaviors.

c. Sociobiologists assert that socialization informs our social behaviors to a greater extent than our genetic makeup.

d. Sociobiology is a nuanced theory; it acknowledges the complexities of social behavior.

Learning Objective: 4.1: Summarize the nature-versus-nurture debate and the sociological perspective on it.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Nature Versus Nurture—or Both Working Together?

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Sociobiology is considered a ______ because it often reduces complex social behaviors to single inherited traits.

a. reductionist theory

b. deductive theory

c. inductive theory

d. interactionist theory

Learning Objective: 4.1: Summarize the nature-versus-nurture debate and the sociological perspective on it.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Nature Versus Nurture—or Both Working Together?

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. In response to the question, “What is more important—nature or nurture?” most sociologists respond, “______.”

a. Nature

b. Nurture

c. They’re equally important

d. It depends on where you’re from

Learning Objective: 4.1: Summarize the nature-versus-nurture debate and the sociological perspective on it.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Nature Versus Nurture—or Both Working Together?

Difficulty Level: Hard

5. Why has Alice Rossi argued that we need to develop biosocial theories?

a. She believes that sociologists need to take sociobiology more seriously.

b. She believes that sociologists need to take socialization more seriously.

c. She believes that sociologists need to build both biological and social theories.

d. She believes that the theoretical perspectives underlying sociology are highly flawed.

Learning Objective: 4.1: Summarize the nature-versus-nurture debate and the sociological perspective on it.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Nature Versus Nurture—or Both Working Together?

Difficulty Level: Hard

6. According to the text, stories of neglected and abused children emphasize the importance of which of the following?

a. early social interaction

b. genetic makeup

c. independence

d. self-confidence

Learning Objective: 4.2: Predict the impact of isolation and neglect on children.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Isolated and Abused Children

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Although socialization occurs at each level of analysis, most perspectives on socialization focus on the ______ level.

a. cellular

b. micro

c. meso

d. macro

Learning Objective: 4.3: Defend the position that groups at each level in our social world have a stake in how we are socialized.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Socialization and the Social World

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. The statement, “Different levels of socializing agents operate to support each other,” is most closely related to ______.

a. structural-functional theory

b. conflict theory

c. symbolic interaction theory

d. sociobiological theory

Learning Objective: 4.3: Defend the position that groups at each level in our social world have a stake in how we are socialized.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Socialization and the Social World

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. The statement, “Those who have power use socialization to manipulate others into supporting the power structure and interests of the elite,” is most closely related to ______.

a. structural-functional theory

b. conflict theory

c. symbolic interaction theory

d. sociobiological theory

Learning Objective: 4.3: Defend the position that groups at each level in our social world have a stake in how we are socialized.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Socialization and the Social World

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. ______ refers to the perceptions we have of who we are.

a. Socialization

b. The generalized other

c. The Self

d. The looking-glass self

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Development of the Self: Micro-Level Analysis

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Which of the following is TRUE regarding the development of the self?

a. Humans are born with a social self.

b. Individual biology plays no part in determining a human’s sense of self.

c. Individual biology is the primary factor in determining a human’s sense of self.

d. Humans gradually develop a social self through interactions with others.

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Development of the Self: Micro Level Analysis

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. The looking-glass self and role-taking are two processes that are part of ______.

a. structural-functional theory

b. feminist theory

c. conflict theory

d. symbolic interaction theory

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Development of the Self: Micro Level Analysis

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Which of the following sociologists is responsible for the concept of the looking-glass self?

a. Charles H. Cooley

b. Erving Goffman

c. Harriet Martineau

d. Émile Durkheim

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Looking-Glass Self and Role-Taking

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Which of the following is TRUE of the concept of the looking-glass self?

a. It is born out of conflict theory.

b. It indicates that we passively accept the judgements of others.

c. It suggests that we actively manipulate other people’s views of us.

d. It assumes that our interpretations of other people’s responses are correct.

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Looking-Glass Self and Role-Taking

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Which of the following sociologists is responsible for the concept of role-taking?

a. Max Weber

b. Charles H. Cooley

c. George Herbet Mead

d. W. E. B. Du Bois

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Looking-Glass Self and Role-Taking

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. The process in which individuals take others into account by imagining themselves in the position of that other is called ______.

a. socialization

b. interaction

c. the looking-glass self

d. role-taking

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Looking-Glass Self and Role-Taking

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. Cameron sees a boy getting bullied on the playground. He imagines how hard it would be to get picked on like that, which makes him feel empathy for his classmate. This is an example of which of the following processes?

a. resocialization

b. role-taking

c. cooperation

d. the looking-glass self

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Looking-Glass Self and Role-Taking

Difficulty Level: Hard

18. Max is taking a chemistry exam. A part of him feels the urge to get up, leave, and go hang out with his friends. Another part of him knows that he should use the full time allotted to maximize his chance of getting a good grade. According to Mead, the part of him that wants to leave is the ______, and the part of him that knows he should stay is the ______.

a. I; me

b. me; I

c. Id; ego

d. Ego; id

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Parts of the Self

Difficulty Level: Hard

19. According to Mead, which of the following is the first stage in the development of the self?

a. the generalized other

b. the game stage

c. the play stage

d. the imitation stage

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Stages in the Development of the Self

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Two 5-year-olds are having a play date. One child tells the other that she should sit at the table because it’s dinner time. She then pretends to serve her friend a meal. According to Mead, the children are in the ______ stage.

a. imitation

b. play

c. game

d. social-self

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Stages in the Development of the Self

Difficulty Level: Hard

21. Parents, guardians, siblings, or important individuals whose primary and sustained interactions are especially influential for the individual are referred to as ______.

a. looking-glass others

b. significant others

c. generalized others

d. agents of socialization

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Stages in the Development of the Self

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. Ariana is 8. She has a minor role in the school play. She understands what she’s supposed to say and do, but she also understands the larger complexity of the production. According to Mead, Ariana is in the ______ stage.

a. imitation

b. game

c. play

d. generalized other

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Stages in the Development of the Self

Difficulty Level: Hard

23. When does a child’s sense of the generalized other emerge?

a. moving from imitation stage to the play stage

b. moving from the play stage to the imitation stage

c. moving from the play stage to the game stage

d. moving from the game stage to the play stage

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Stages in the Development of the Self

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. Kayla felt embarrassed for using a curse word in front of a group of nuns. This embarrassment illustrates her internalization of ______.

a. the looking-glass self

b. the generalized other

c. significant others

d. the play stage

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Stages in the Development of the Self

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. Socialization takes place ______.

a. in utero

b. in infancy

c. during childhood

d. throughout the life cycle

Learning Objective: 4.5 Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Socialization Throughout the Life Cycle

Difficulty Level: Easy

26. Which of the following is an example of a rite of passage?

a. informal schooling

b. weekly church services

c. high school graduation

d. resocialization

Learning Objective: 4.5 Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Socialization Throughout the Life Cycle

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. The process of abandoning one or more social positions for others that are more suitable for a newly acquired status is referred to as ______.

a. resocialization

b. total socialization

c. impression management

d. mortification

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Process of Resocialization

Difficulty Level: Medium

28. ______ are places that cut people off from the rest of society and control the process of resocialization.

a. Disciplinary institutions

b. Total institutions

c. Social institutions

d. Resocialization institutions

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Process of Resocialization

Difficulty Level: Easy

29. Which of the following are known as the “transmitters of culture”?

a. the power elite

b. significant others

c. agents of socialization

d. social institutions

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Agents of Socialization: The Micro-Meso Connection

Difficulty Level: Easy

30. Which of the following acts as the primary agent of socialization in early childhood?

a. the media

b. the family

c. peer groups

d. school

Learning Objective: 4.5: Describe how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Agents of Socialization: The Micro-Meso Connection

Difficulty Level: Easy

31. Some argue that the most important agent of socialization during the teenage years is/are ______.

a. books

b. religious organizations

c. schools

d. peer groups

Learning Objective: 4.5: Describe how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Agents of Socialization: The Micro-Meso Connection

Difficulty Level: Medium

32. Families and teachers are ______ agents of socialization.

a. secondary

b. formal

c. informal

d. macro-level

Learning Objective: 4.5: Describe how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Agents of Socialization: The Micro-Meso Connection

Difficulty Level: Easy

33. Disney movies, such as Cinderella or Snow White are ______ agents of socialization.

a. primary

b. informal

c. formal

d. micro-level

Learning Objective: 4.5: Describe how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Agents of Socialization: The Micro-Meso Connection

Difficulty Level: Medium

34. Maria rewards her young daughter Libby with a cookie for using the bathroom on her own. This is an example of a positive ______.

a. sanction

b. mores

c. folkway

d. norm

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Micro-Level Socialization

Difficulty Level: Medium

35. Which of the following is an example of a negative sanction?

a. a smile

b. a cookie

c. a verbal reprimand

d. a pat on the back

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Micro-Level Socialization

Difficulty Level: Easy

36. Which of the following refers to a person’s wealth, power, and prestige ranking in society?

a. social stratification

b. social network

c. social class

d. income

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Social Class

Difficulty Level: Easy

37. Social class is what type of agent of socialization?

a. a micro-level agent of socialization

b. a meso-level agent of socialization

c. a macro-level agent of socialization

d. a meta-level agent of socialization

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Meso-Level Socialization

Difficulty Level: Medium

38. Which of the following is an example of reproduction of class?

a. working-class parents taking their children to religious services

b. working-class parents analyzing a child’s reasoning for misbehaving

c. working-class parents enrolling their children in after school activities

d. working-class parents instilling in their children respect for authority and conformity to rules

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Social Class

Difficulty Level: Medium

39. Television, computers, and other electronic devices are considered ______ agents of socialization at the ______ level.

a. formal; meso

b. formal; macro

c. informal; meso

d. informal; macro

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Electronic Media

Difficulty Level: Medium

40. ______ refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people and institutions across the borders of nation-states.

a. Multiculturalism

b. Pluralism

c. Transnationalism

d. Globalization

Learning Objective: 4.6: Discuss how macro-level agents of socialization can impact children today.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sense of Self in a New Global Context

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. Socialization begins when children go to school for the first time.

Learning Objective: 4.1: Summarize the nature-versus-nurture debate and the sociological perspective on it.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Most sociologists believe that nature and nurture are equally important in shaping the individual.

Learning Objective: 4.1: Summarize the nature-versus-nurture debate and the sociological perspective on it.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Nature Versus Nurture—or Both Working Together?

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Generally speaking, the more intelligent the species, the shorter the period of gestation and dependence on others.

Learning Objective: 4.1: Summarize the nature-versus-nurture debate and the sociological perspective on it.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Importance of Socialization

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. The process of socialization occurs at each level of analysis.

Learning Objective: 4.3: Defend the position that groups at each level in our social world have a stake in how we are socialized.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Socialization and the Social World

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Functional theorists believe that those who have power and privilege use socialization to manipulate individuals in the social world.

Learning Objective: 4.3: Defend the position that groups at each level in our social world have a stake in how we are socialized.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Socialization and the Social World

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Humans are born with a sense of self.

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Development of the Self: Micro-Level Analysis

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. The looking-glass self refers to an individual’s feelings of self-worth.

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Looking-Glass Self and Role-Taking

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Through role-taking, people begin to see who they are from the standpoint of others.

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Looking-Glass Self and Role-Taking

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Mead argued that role-taking is possible because humans have a unique ability to use and respond to symbols.

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Looking-Glass Self and Role-Taking

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. The Me is the spontaneous, unpredictable, impulsive, and largely unorganized aspect of the self.

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Parts of the Self

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. The Me is the reflective capacity of the self.

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Parts of the Self

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. In the play stage, children prepare for role-taking by observing others and imitating their behaviors, sounds, and gestures.

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Parts of the Self

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. The generalized other is a composite of expectations from significant others.

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Stages in the Development of the Self

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Rites of passage are ceremonies or public recognitions when individuals move from one status to another.

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Socialization Throughout the Life Cycle

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. Once an older person retires, the individual no longer undergoes socialization and resocialization.

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Socialization Throughout the Life Cycle

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. The elderly are vitally important to the ongoing group in more settled agricultural societies.

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Socialization Throughout the Life Cycle

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Resocialization always takes place in total institutions.

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Process of Resocialization

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. A monastery is an example of a total institution.

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Process of Resocialization

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Becoming a parent is an example of a situation in which an individual undergoes resocialization.

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Process of Resocialization

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. All socialization and resocialization is positive and functional.

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Process of Resocialization

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. Agents of socialization are the mechanisms by which the self learns the values, beliefs, and behaviors of the culture.

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Agents of Socialization: The Micro-Meso Connection

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. The media, books, and the Internet are considered formal agents of socialization.

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Agents of Socialization: The Micro-Meso Connection

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. Upper-middle class parents tend to pass on to their children their cultural values of respect for authority and conformity to rules.

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Meso-Level Socialization

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. The reproduction of class results from globalization.

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Meso-Level Socialization

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. Transnationalism occurs when individuals move from one area of a country to another.

Learning Objective: 4.6: Discuss how macro-level agents of socialization can impact children today.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sense of Self in a New Global Context

Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

1. What is sociobiology? Where does it fit in the nature-versus-nurture debate? How do most sociologists respond to this argument?

Learning Objective: 4.1: Summarize the nature-versus-nurture debate and the sociological perspective on it.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Nature Versus Nurture—or Both Working Together?

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Compare and contrast the structural-functionalist and conflict perspectives of socialization.

Learning Objective: 4.3: Defend the position that groups at each level in our social world have a stake in how we are socialized.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Socialization and the Social World

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. What do stories about isolated and abused children tell us about the significance of socialization?

Learning Objective: 4.2: Predict the impact of isolation and neglect on children.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Isolated and Abused Children

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. According to Mead, what are the two parts of the self? How do they interact with each other? Provide an example.

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Parts of the Self

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. What is the looking-glass self? Provide an example.

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Looking-Glass Self and Role-Taking

Difficulty Level: Hard

6. According to Mead, what happens during each stage of the development of the self?

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Stages in the Development of the Self

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. What is the generalized other? Provide an example of a human experience that reflects an individual’s internalization of the generalized other.

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Stages in the Development of the Self

Difficulty Level: Hard

8. What are rites of pages? Give examples of rites of passage that occur throughout the life cycle.

Learning Objective: 4.4: Describe how we develop a “self” through interacting with others.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Socialization Throughout the Life Cycle

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. In general, how successful are resocialization efforts to correct or reform behaviors defined as undesirable or deviant?

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Process of Resocialization

Difficulty Level: Hard

10. Compare and contrast formal and informal agents of socialization. Provide one example of each.

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Agents of Socialization: The Micro-Meso Connection

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Why do many sociologists consider the family the most important agent of socialization?

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Micro-Level Socialization

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. How does social class influence the way a child is socialized? How might it be beneficial for children to be socialized according to their family’s social class? How might it be harmful?

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Class

Difficulty Level: Hard

13. In what way is gender or race an important influencing agent of socialization?

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Class

Difficulty Level: Hard

14. How is the rise and spread of electronic media changing the way individuals are socialized?

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Electronic Media

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. What is transnationalism? How can transnationalism complicate a person’s sense of self?

Learning Objective: 4.5: Explain how micro- and meso-level agents of socialization influence individuals.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Sense of Self in a New Global Context

Difficulty Level: Hard