Agents of socalization Flashcards
Diane Reay (1998)
Parents - Detailed study of 33 mothers. Middle class mothers has time and energy and were confident talking to teachers. The working class mothers had more of a struggle to make ends meat so have less time.
Frank Furedi (2001)
Parents - Traditionally ‘good’ parents tried to care and stimulate their children. Nowadays they see their main task as protecting their children from risks. Different ‘risks’ are closed off to children preventing a healthy sense of adventure.
Oakley (1972)
Parents - Parents use different terms of endearment for boys and girls - ‘brave soldier’ for boys and ‘little princess’ for girls. Blue for boys and pink for girls and guns for boys, dolls for girls.
Palmer (2007)
Parents - Parents no longer spend quality time with their children, an ‘electronic babysitter’ provides a ‘toxic childhood’.
Skelton (2001)
Education - Study of primary school in economically deprived and with reputation for crime. Teachers regarded many of the local parents as ‘inadequate’ and so they felt the school had the task of socializing children properly. Boys brought attitudes picked up from the ‘lads’ so the school attempted to maintain social control by relying on firm measures.
Munro (1997)
Education - Purpose of education is to sort individuals and rank individuals for placement in the labor market. Those with the highest academic achievement will be trained for the most important jobs and, in reward, given the highest income.
Adler and Adler (1995)
Peer Groups - Group of white middle class children in US. In pre adolescent children being popular and having friends made children feel good about themselves but being socially isolated had the reverse effect. Friendship groups develop a hierarchy and exercise their power over others.
Marie Gillespie (1993)
Peer groups/Media - Study of Sikhs in Southall. Bollywood films have important socializing functions, creating links between Asian communities and socializing younger children into Asian cultures.
Paul Willis (1977)
Peer Groups - Study of 12 ‘lads’ in Midlands comprehensive school, found that they formed friendship group in which the main objective was to avoid going to lessons or doing work.
Charlotte Butler (1995)
Religion - Study of a group of teenage Muslim girls in East Midlands. Born in Britain and were moving away from the traditions of their parents. Remained committed to their Muslim identity but rejected customs of it such as arranged marriages.
Tariq Modood
Religion - Survey the importance of religion in people’s lives in England. 67% of young British Pakistani and Bangladeshi agreed that ‘religion is important to how i live my life’, compared to 55% of young white sample.
Waddington (1999)
Workplace - Canteen culture can help socialize police officers. They learn from other officers telling ;war stories’ and pick up advice.
Ritzer (2002)
Workplace - Young people often get first experience of work in ‘McJobs’ - unskilled low paid, part time jobs, where they are trained to perform simple tasks in a predictable manner doing each action the same way.
Abi Moore
Media - Creator of website ‘Pink Stinks’ argues that ‘young women desperately need new role models, and that what the media gives them is heiresses, sex objects, surgery addicts and emotional wrecks’
