🔥🔴✅☑️✅🔸10 Mark -ethnic identity

Question 1

Explain how 2 sociological agents of socialisation influence ethnic identity
(The family)
Name 4 ways the family convey ethnic identity

Answer 1

Through your first and surname, language spoken, food eaten and clothing

Question 2

Explain how 2 sociological agents of socialisation influence ethnic identity (the family)
Give an example of how Asian people are taught about religion

Answer 2

Taught about religion, cultural practices and moral attitudes Through Izzat, the importance of the religious calendar and extended family

Question 3

Explain how 2 agents of socialisation influence ethnic identity (the family)
What did hills study find?

Answer 3

Family commitments lay at the heart of the Asian communities in Leister

Question 4

Explain how 2 agents of socialisation influence ethnic identity (the family)
What did Denchs study find?

Answer 4

Studied Bangladeshis living In east London, focussing on whether they were part of the new East End
Interviews showed both white and Bangladeshi residents showed persistent strength of the extended family

Question 5

Explain how 2 agents of socialisation influence ethnic identity (the family)
What did Francis and Archers study show?

Answer 5

Showed importance of educational success in Asian families as they made considerable sacrifices to ensure success e.g going without new consumer goods to pay school fees

Question 6

Explain how 2 agents of socialisation influence ethnic identity (education)
What is education and how does it influence ethnicity

Answer 6

It is a form of secondary socialisation which shapes ethnic identity through the formal and informal curriculum

Question 7

Explain how 2 agents of socialisation influence ethnic identity (education)
What did Mason (2005) argue?

Answer 7

Schools are ethnocentric

Question 8

Explain how 2 agents of socialisation influence ethnic identity (education)
What did Johal and Bains find?

Answer 8

Some children wear a metaphorical ‘white mask’ in order to fit into the majority culture

Question 9

Explain how 2 agents of socialisation influence ethnic identity (education)
How do schools show cultural bias?

Answer 9

Through KS3 history where only GB history is taught

Question 10

Explain how 2 agents of socialisation influence ethnic identity (education)
What did Wright (2006) discover?

Answer 10

Showed how the informal curriculum influences ethnic identities
Discovered black girls felt that teachers treated them unfairly in lessons, from the girls in pint of view the teachers were racist