Social Network: the web of indirect and direct ties connecting an individual to another person who influences your behavior. The ties between groups. People you routinely come in contact with. This picture shows and example of a student who is tied to his teacher.

 

Group: a collection of people who share some attribute, identify with one another and interact with each other. This is a club MEChA at Pierce College. They have some form of connection with one another because if this club. This club brings them together to share the same interest in one way or another.

 








Agent of Socialization are the social groups, institutions, and individuals that provide structured situations in which socialization are the family, schools, peers, and the mass media. Family is the most important, it teaches us the basic values and norms that shape our identity. Schools provide education and socialize us through behavior traits that will be important later in life. Peers provide social skills and mass media plays a major role in teaching Americans to buy and consume goods and other values
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Status is a position in society that comes with a set of expectations. an ascribed status is one we are born with that is unlikely to change. Roles are behaviors expected from a status. This picture shows this lady being a mother, its expected of her since infancy to someday grow up and have a family of her own. 

Look- glass Self: the self develops through our perception of others evaluating and appraisals of us. its how we think others think of us. We see the appraisals of others and think that's who and what we are.

 

 Erving Goffman believed that meaning is constructed through interaction. He compared social interaction to the theater, dramaturgy, where individuals take on roles and act them out to present a favorable impression to their audience. This picture shows a teacher taking the role in being a teacher while the student take on the rle of being students wanting to learn.

Socialization: the process of learning the values, beliefs and norms of our social group and by which we become functioning members of society. Socialization begins in infancy and is a lifelong process.