After completing Chapter 5, you should be able to:
- Define socialization and explain why social interaction and languages are essential to socialization.
- Identify the major theories of personality development, including Charles Cooley, George Herbert Mead, Albert Bandura, and Sigmund Freud, and discuss the ways they resemble each other and in what ways they differ.
- Identify and explain the three major agents of socialization and how they influence our people.
- Explain the social processes keep socialization from being totally deterministic and allow people to differ from each other.
- Discuss how order and conflict theories differ in their evaluation and interpretation of the role of the media in the socialization process.
- Explain the extent to which "humanness" is a social product rather than instinctual.
