Business I / Socialization and Professional Identity
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
  1. Separate the mirror from the chorus from the enclosed setting.
  2. One concept describes practising a role before occupying it.
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  • 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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