What is socialization?

Related Mcqs:

1. Once you have started work for an organization through socialization and training it will seek to shape you to fit in and to contribute to achieving its goals. But which of the following is NOT true of socialization?

   A. Socialization is the process by which members of society are taught how to behave and feel by influential members of that society
   B. Socialization can occur in a country, organization or even in a family
   C. In the past, socialization theory research has concentrated on the development of adults, but more recently, it has become clear that children are socialized
   D. When employees start work, they learn to align their work values with those of the organization

2. In Asch’s study of conformity, subjects:

   A. were ordered to give consistently wrong answers to simples
   B. were ordered to deliver painful electric shocks to stranger
   C. indicated which of three lines matched a “standard line” in length
   D. became the recipients of painful electric shocks delivered by an experimental accomplice

3. ______is speculative statement about the relationship between two or more factors known as variables

   A. An operational definition
   B. A theory
   C. An hypothesis
   D. A correlation

4. Practices that prevent educational participants from raising concerns that are important to them is known as_________?

   A. part of the hidden curriculum
   B. streaming
   C. school socialization
   D. silencing

5. Gender role refers to_________?

   A. one’s biological sex
   B. a sense of being male or female
   C. a set of expected behaviors for males and females
   D. how masculine a boy is or how feminine a girls is

6. ______is best known for his research on conformity.

   A. Asch
   B. Rubin
   C. Schachter
   D. Zimbardo

7. Social position in a group determines one’s _________?

   A. competence
   B. auto kinetic norms
   C. role
   D. usefulness

8. Cognitive dissonance theory predicts than after people engage in counter attitudinal behavior, they will _________?

   A. convince themselves they really didn’t perform the behavior
   B. change their attitude to make it more consistent with the behavior
   C. change their attitude to make it less consistent with their behavior
   D. do nothing

9. The tendency for us to blame people and underestimate the environment for causing behavior is known as the:

   A. Self-serving bias
   B. Balance principle
   C. Cognitive dissonance model
   D. Fundamental attribution error

10. Which of the following theories is not macro nature?

    A. Functionalism
    B. Marxism
    C. Feminism
    D. Interactionism