Using an example from your own life or experience, describe an example of social learning theory in action. Be sure to give sufficient detail from the theory and your experience.
What will be an ideal response?
ANS: Answers will vary based on students’ experiences. However, the answers should include the idea that we learn what is appropriate or acceptable based on behaving a certain way and then being punished or rewarded for it.
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Giddens (and Risman) believe that the individual must be brought into structural theories. They mean by this that
a. we must treat actors as reflexive; we must understand their thinking is influenced by structure. b. we need to analyze personality as well as structure. c. we need to understand how structure prevents individuals from thinking. d. we need to show that structure is really an imaginary reality.
The sharp White–Black divide is absent in home countries of the Latinos, where race, if socially constructed, tends to be along a ________
a. conflict perspective b. functionalist perspective c. contact hypothesis d. color gradient
An individual must act deviantly in order to be stigmatized.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Assessment tests given to kids in fourth through eighth grade show that average reading and math scores are _____ for children in high-poverty schools compared to students in low-poverty schools
a. higher b. lower c. about the same d. not recorded