Industrial societies typically define people in old age as _______
a. the most wise.
b. the most knowledgeable about current fashion and trends.
c. more out of touch and less socially important than younger adults.
d. wealthy and powerful.
Question 2A distinctive contribution of schooling to the process of socialization is _______
a. exposing the child to an impersonal, bureaucratic setting.
b. exposing the child to people of similar social backgrounds.
c. teaching children to be highly flexible and to express their individuality.
d. helping children break free of gender roles.
Question 3Today, the factor people most commonly use in considering a young woman or young man to have reached adulthood is whether or not the person _______
a. has completed all schooling.
b. has a full-time job, with the ability to support a family.
c. is married.
d. is married and has children.
Question 4The special importance of the peer group is the fact that it _______
a. has a greater effect than parents on children's long-term goals.
b. lets children escape the direct supervision of parents.
c. gives children experience in an impersonal setting.
d. halts the socialization process for a brief period.
Question 5In the historical perspective, the importance of the mass media to the socialization process has _______
a. increased over time.
b. been about the same over the last century.
c. decreased over time.
d. never been very important.
Question 6When people model themselves after the members of peer groups they would like to join, they are engaging in a process that sociologists call _______
a. group conformity.
b. future directedness.
c. anticipatory socialization.
d. group rejection.
Question 7Erik H. Erikson's view of socialization states that _______
a. personality develops over the entire life course in patterned stages.
b. personality involves tensions between the forces of biology and forces of culture.
c. we come to see ourselves as we think others see us.
d. most of our personality development takes place in childhood.
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