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Question 1: Nature and Nurture: What do twin studies tell us about nature/nurture? Also, discuss the influence of heredity in explaining the process of one's personality and intellectual development. Provide examples.

Question 2: What is the self? According to Charles Horton Cooley, explain the "looking glass self" (discuss the three phases). George Herbert Mead also discusses the stages of the self: identify differences between I and Me. What is meant by significant others? How are significant others related to the self? Identify Mead's three-stage process of self-development.

Question 3: Explain the dramaturgical approach. What occurs on front-stage? What happens in backstage? How can Erving Goffman's idea of impression management and face-work be used to understand social behavior?

Question 4: Identify the agents of socialization. What is the role of schools in gender role socialization? How has technology (computer, cell phone, email, & TV) influenced the socialization process?

Question 5: What are total institutions? Identify Goffman's four traits of total institutions. Discuss how a degradation ceremony is used to mortify one's sense of self.

Question 6: How does society deal with an elderly population? Discuss differences between disengagement theory and activity theory? Finally, provide solutions to ageism.

Question 7: Define socialization.

Question 8: Compare nature and nurture as socialization influences.

Question 9: Identify agents and agencies of socialization.

Question 10: Evaluate the study of cases of feral children in terms of their importance to our knowledge of socialization.

Question 11: Recall and define the steps in determining a self-concept.

Question 12: Evaluate Dramaturgy for its application to every day life.

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