SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: The Hidden Curriculum, Mass Media, Assisted Suicide
Document Summary
Agents of socialization;individual, groups, and social institutions that together help people to become functioning members of society. Assisted suicide; intentionally killing oneself with the help from others. Birth cohort; all of the people who are born during a given period of time and therefore experience historical events at the same points in their lives. Cultural capital; social assets that are gained from one"s family and help one to succeed in life double -consciousness; du bois term for a sense of self that is defined , in part, through the eyes of others. Dying trajectories; the courses that dying takes in both social and psychological senses. Empty nest syndrome; the depression that some mother experience when their children have left home. Euthanasia; the deliberate ending of the life of a person who has an incurable or painful disease. Evolutionary psychology; a relabelled form of sociobiology that argues that darwinian inheritance can explain contemporary human behaviour.
