Discussion

YENROSE

1. Some typical agents of socialization are: family, school, religion, friends, relatives, and mass media. What agents of socialization have influenced you the most? Describe their influence on your attitudes, beliefs, values, or other orientations to life. How have they made you the person that you are today?

2. The major components of social structure are culture, social class, social status, roles, groups, and social institutions. Use social structure to explain why some Americans have such a low rate of college graduation. (See Table 9.3, Race-Ethnicity and Education, in Chapter 9 of the textbook.)

SOC-100

Short-Answer Quiz 2

Complete the quiz in a Word document. This is an open book quiz. The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.

Topic 2

1. What Life Course stage are you currently in, according to the textbook? Analyze the stage based on your own experience. What are the similarities and the differences?

2. Use the concepts of dramaturgy to analyze an everyday situation at work, school, or family. Include the concepts of impressions management, sign-vehicles, team-work, or face-saving behaviors.

3. From the symbolic interactionist perspective discuss how you engage in your “personal bubble” using the four “distance zones.”

4. Give a brief discussion of three of the main agents of socialization in your life. Which one was the most influential and why?

© 2021. Grand Canyon University. All Rights Reserved.

image1.jpeg

SOC-100 Social Media and Socialization Survey and Analysis

Part 1 - Survey

Instructions: Complete the survey by filling in the first column of the table below. Additionally, survey three people in various age groups, and note their responses in the corresponding columns. Use this data to complete the analysis in Part 2 of this worksheet.

Social media survey	Self	Interviewee # 1	Interviewee # 2	Interviewee # 3
List Demographic Information – age, sex, race/ethnicity, and income.
What type(s) of phone(s) do you have? What features? Daily usage?
Do you use email? How many email addresses do you have? Daily usage?
Do you use the Internet? Why? Daily usage?
Do you blog? What types of blogs? Why? Daily usage?
Do you use Facebook? Twitter or other social networking? Why? Daily usage?
Out of all the social interactions you typically have in an average day, what percentage are through the use of social media?
Do you value the social interactions you have through social media the same as those that are not through social media? Why or why not?
Why do you use social media? (List purpose and/or results.)
How do you see social media impacting your life? Society?
How do you see social media impacting the socialization of this generation?

Part 2 - Analysis

Instructions: Once you have completed the table above and reviewed the results, answer the questions below. Each response should be three to five sentences in length.

1.) How much of an impact does social media have on the socialization of people that completed the survey?

2.) How did the impact differ among the various age groups? Why do you think that this is the case? Explain.

3.) Explain how social media affected the people’s social interaction. Why is social interaction important to humans? Explain.

© 2021. Grand Canyon University. All Rights Reserved.