Agents of socialisation Flashcards

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What are the 6 agents of socialisation ?

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  • Peer group
  • family
  • education
  • religion
  • work place
  • media
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What are two ways that children can learn through the family ?

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  • Imitation (children copy the way their parents talk, their table manners this is because they are their role models)
  • sanctions ( This teaches a child right and wrong through positive and negative sanctions)
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What are examples of positive and negative sanction ?

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Positive = Praise
Negative = grounding, naughty step etc.

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What is a peer group ?

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The people who are the same age as you.

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What are two research example of peer groups ?

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Judith Harris (1998) - looked at influence of peer groups and families. Concluded peer groups are more influential when a child is developing their identity.
Tony Sewell (2000) - He made the theory of cultural comfort zones. Which meant that people preferred to hang out with people who were most like them.

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Who are the main people in education who socialise us ?

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Teachers

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What are the two types of curriculum and what do they mean ?

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Formal - The basic learning children are taught during lessons for example english, maths, history.
Hidden - which teaches children norms and values of society as well as sanctions and gender roles

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One way that we are socialised through media ?

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The representation of different social groups

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What is Mulev’s study ?

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  • Uses the concept of the ‘male gaze’
  • describes how cameras in film ‘eye up’ female characters
  • So you can analyse their attractiveness from a male perspective
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What is something media has created ?

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Consumer culture because we are encouraged to buy things

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What religion are some British laws based off ?

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Christianity

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How important is religion in multi-faith communities ?

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Religion is varied in these communities. Modood and Berthoud surveyed youth and found 67% pakistanis and bangledeshis saw religion as very important whereas 5% of british agreed.

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Who is the workplace a key socialisation area for ?

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Adults

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What is formal socialisation at work ?

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Learning the code of conduct, behaviour and dress codes. They are things that are enforced by formal sanctions

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What is informal socialisation at work ?

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Colleagues help socialise employees by showing what is acceptable and what isn’t

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What was a study made in the workplace ?

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Waddington created the theory of canteen culture, this explains the set of norms and values that people at work are socialised to accept.
This has been used to describe racism in the workplace. People go into the force not being racist however due to colleagues enforcing racist norms they become socialised into them.

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What was Gintis and Bowles study ?

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  • studied the hidden curriculum
  • concluded that it brainwashed the children
  • makes them develop an unquestioning attitude that makes them conform to a capitalist society.