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Chapter 6 — Socialization, The Life-Course and Ageing
G. H. Mead stresses that self-awareness comes when the child is able to distinguish the ‘me’ from the ‘I’. The term he uses to describe the ‘me’ is:
a) generalized other
b) self-consciousness
c) egoism
d) social self
Mead’s work is an example of:
a) functionalism
b) symbolic interactionism
c) psychoanalysis
d) cognitive theory
According to Piaget, the phase at which children master abstract, logical notions are able to grasp causality and can recognize false reasoning is the:
a) sensorimotor stage
b) preoperational stage
c) concrete operational phase
d) formal operational stage
The main agent in primary socialization is:
a) school
b) family
c) television
d) peer group
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
In Carol Gilligan’s research she found that when asked to consider a moral dilemma, women would typically solve it on the principle of:
a) upholding moral duty
b) supporting social justice
c) promoting individual freedom
d) avoiding harming others
Disengagement theory holds that it is functional for society if as people reach old age they:
a) take on full-time paid employment
b) take on less taxing and important roles
c) take on new and demanding civic roles
d) take on more active political roles
The life-course model views aging as:
a) a process that continues from birth to death
b) a process shaped by the forces of capitalism
c) a process of adapting to changing social roles
d) a process shaped by psychological decline
The dependency ratio describes:
a) the size of working population supporting the young and the old
b) the number of children dependent upon the adults in a family
c) the amount of care both given and received by older people
d) the number of welfare professionals that support a population
Constructionist studies of old age view it as:
a) a medical condition
b) a period of life
c) a state of mind
d) a social category
According to United nations estimates, by 2025 the world’s average life expectancy will have reached:
a) 46
b) 54
c) 71
d) 80
In 2003 the average life expectancy of someone born in Britain was:
a) 68.5
b) 76.0
c) 80.5
d) 84.0
Anthony Giddens — Sociology, 5th Edition
