Explain the Key Components of Sociologist George Herbert Mead's Role-Taking

question 110

Essay

Explain the key components of sociologist George Herbert Mead's role-taking theory and evaluate the contribution to our understanding of the socialization process.

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A training process involving the correlation between a stimulus from the environment and one that occurs inherently.

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has been repeatedly paired with an unconditioned stimulus.

Operant

A term used in the science of behavior to describe an action or behavior that operates on the environment to produce consequences.

Classical

Pertaining to the first significant period or highest standard within any discipline; in psychology, often refers to conditions or experiments that form the basis of behaviorism, such as classical conditioning.