Chapt.+3-+Socialization-+From+Infancy+to+Old+Age

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 * **[[image:imagesCAGO3OEH.jpg]]Personality**- a person's fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling
 * There are many different personalities portrayed in the show by the characters who all have different senses of humor. There personalities are all different, making the show funny for those who get the humor.
 * **Self**- the part of an individual's personality composed of self-awareness and self-image.
 * Sheldon gets his haircut by the same barber every time he needs a trim. He won't let anybody else do it because he is able to tell the difference and doesn't trust anybody else to do it the way he likes it. With Penny influencing him to let her cut it, he sees himself as more willing and able to step outside his comfort zone.
 * **Significant Others**- people, such as parents, who have special importance for socialization.
 * Throughout the show Raj wonders if he will ever find the right girl. In a recent episode he is set up with one of Penny's friends. They date for a month and he buys her gifts that his parents are not to happy about, thus becoming his significant other.
 * **Peer Group-** a social group whose members have interests, social position, and age in common.
 * In the show this is portrayed very well. Sheldon and Leonard and their friends are all of the same peer group because they have similar interest in common. They all have jobs that are involved with something scientific, they also enjoy video gaming together. They are considered nerdy because of the thing they do within their peer group.

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 * ** Cohort- A category of people with something in common, usually age. **
 * Everyone in Sheldon and Lenard's group have being single in common.
 * ** Ageism- Prejudice and discrimination against older people. **
 * Howard sets the guys up to dance with elderly women and the guys, for the most part, don’t enjoy it.
 * ** Looking-Glass Self- Charles Horton Cooley’s term for a self-image based on how we think others see us. **
 * The guys refer to themselves as nerds because they’re viewed as insanely smart and geeky by the rest of society.
 * ** Concrete Operational Stage- Piaget’s term for the level of human development at which individuals first see casual connections in their surroundings. **
 * Sheldon often implies that he matured and learned faster than most people his age. He pretty much skipped this stage.