Agency of Socialisation - Family Flashcards
Feminist
Ann Oakley
argues gender socialisation takes place in home
- Manipulation
-parents encourage behaviour seen as normal for child’s sex; discourage deviant
- Canalisation
-Channelling interests to toys and activities seen as normal for sex
- Verbal appellations
-Names children taught to identify with respect to sex
‘good girl’
‘good boy’
- Different activities
-Encouraged to involve themselves in diff activities
Functionalist
Talcott Parsons
- Family is ‘personality factory’
-parents produce children with identities & social qualities that fit social expectations of society
Primary & Secondary Socialisation
Albert Bandura SLT
Observation & Imitation
Claims that children learn behaviour by watching others, especially Role Models (identification) that they love and look up to
Primary socialisation process involves children in empathetic role-play (imagining themselves as someone else)
-allows them to practice interaction with others
-appreciate that certain types of behaviour in certain contexts aren’t acceptable
Play encourages children to solve problems, understand stimuli, learn about sharing intimacy, dealing with conflict, learn discipline, self-control and discover the limits of both physical/emotional power
Primary Socialisation Relating To Identity
George Herbert Mead (1934)
Sense of Self
Children develop a sense of self-identity through interaction with other people
especially their significant others (any person who has a strong influence on an individual’s self-concept)
such as parents, grandparents and older siblings
Primary & Secondary Socialisation Relating To Identity
Charles Cooley (1998)
Looking Glass Self
Developed Mead’s ideas further
His concept of the ‘looking glass self’, states
a person’s self grows out of a person’s social interactions with others.
The view of we have of ourselves does not come from who we really are, but rather from how we believe others see us
