Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each concept to its author and meaning.
- Looking-glass self
- Generalized other
- Total institution
- Anticipatory socialization
- Cooley: self built from imagined judgments
- Adopting a role’s norms before holding it
- Goffman: identity stripped and rebuilt
- Mead: internalizing the community’s expectations
Hints
- Separate the mirror from the chorus from the enclosed setting.
- One concept describes practising a role before occupying it.
Show the answer
- Looking-glass self → Cooley: self built from imagined judgments
- Generalized other → Mead: internalizing the community’s expectations
- Total institution → Goffman: identity stripped and rebuilt
- Anticipatory socialization → Adopting a role’s norms before holding it
Why
Cooley’s mirror, Mead’s chorus, Goffman’s barracks, and the rehearsal before the part, the theory of how selves are manufactured.
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