Within which group are a person’s basic personality characteristics formed?
Correct answer A. Family
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Cooley’s idea of the looking-glass self holds that the self is discovered through what?
Correct answer B. Reactions of others
Through socialisation, what does an individual internalise?
Correct answer B. Cultural norms
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Mead argued that each person is shaped by the expectations they believe society holds of them. What did he call this?
Correct answer C. Generalised other
Freud split the self into three parts: the id, the superego and which other?
Correct answer B. Ego
Which part of the self is conscious and rational?
Correct answer B. Ego
Who coined the phrase looking-glass self to stress that the self arises from social interaction with others?
Correct answer D. Charles Horton Cooley
Jean Piaget found that newborns have no looking-glass self, yet in what way are they strongly oriented?
Correct answer C. Self-centred
What are separatist movements around the world trying to achieve?
Correct answer C. The creation of an independent nation-state
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What is the third age of the life course said to involve?
Correct answer C. Active non-work and independence after retirement
What did Norbert Elias call the competition between social units that eventually produced the nation-state?
Correct answer A. The monopoly mechanism
Social constructionism examines the processes that create and maintain what?
Correct answer D. Social reality
Who described war as the continuation of political intercourse by other means?
Correct answer A. Carl von Clausewitz
According to Piaget’s account as presented by Giddens, at which stage do children master abstract logical notions, grasp causality and recognise false reasoning?
Correct answer B. Concrete operational stage
What is authority that comes from an individual’s personality or personal appeal called?
Correct answer D. Charismatic authority
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Mary Kaldor (2006) argues that globalisation lies at the heart of many new wars. Which of these is NOT an example of conflict becoming more globalised?
Correct answer B. The recourse of combatants to small-scale guerrilla tactics
Once the self has formed, how is it best described?
Correct answer C. Proactive
New-style terrorism differs from old-style terrorism in three main ways. Which of these is NOT one of them?
Correct answer C. It has a nationalist ideology
Biological inheritance, physical environment, culture and group experience all influence the development of what?
Correct answer C. Personality
Which features distinguish modern nation-states from traditional civilisations?
Correct answer D. All of the above