Chapter+03-Socialization

__ Significant others __ - people, such as parents, who have special importance for socialization -Alan and Charlie are both significant others to Jake. They both play a large role in the socialization of Jake. __ Personality __ - a person’s fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling -Charlie has the same personality in real life as he does on the show. He always feels powerful over women, doesn’t care much about anyone, and just wants pleasure. __ Looking-glass self __ - Charles Horton Cooley’s term for self-image based on how we think others see us  -Charlie knows he has a bad self-image because in one episode a bunch of his exes make an internet site about how evil Charlie is. So he goes around and makes up with everyone of them to get a better self image. Put two and two together they all post it on the site and Charlie is back in the same situation.

__ Mass media: __ the means for delivering impersonal communications to a vast audience - Charlie goes about making money by doing “jingles” for different types of foods, and children’s songs. __ Peer group: __ a social group whose members have interests, social position, and age in common - Charlie and Alan both have something in common, they both dislike their mother, and as for age, they are separated by a few years, but they both shape the other with the way the live. __ Ageism: __ prejudice and discrimination against older people - Charlie is always ridiculing his mother for being old, and that she is losing all of her youth, which pushes her to go through multiple procedures to fix some of those problems.