Culture Theorists

Question 1

Breaking rules gives people considerable advantage but most people don’t commit serious crimes believes criminals and deviants lack proper socialisation

Answer 1

Travis Hirschi (Functionalists)

Question 2

Socialisation is the process by which humans learn and internalise their cultures norms and values
Threes stages of socialisation

Answer 2

Talcott Parsons (Functionalists)

Question 3

People who behave in strange way lack socialisation rather than knowing and choosing to not follow rule

Answer 3

Talcott Parsons

Question 4

Habitus (similar patterns and actions of family)

Answer 4

Pierre Bourdieu (Marxist)

Question 5

Secondary socialisation helped individual develop separate identity to deal with strangers

Answer 5

Talcott Parsons

Question 6

School teaches children to accept an unfair society

Answer 6

Althusser

Question 7

1970s/80s school textbooks either ignored women or placed them in domestic roles

Answer 7

Feminists

Question 8

Collective conscience- impossible to have social life without set of socially accepted and shared norms and values religion embodies this idea

Answer 8

Durkheim

Question 9

Children have little choice but to take on parents belief and those beliefs may become a normal part of their life

Answer 9

Erikson

Question 10

Direct link between exposure of violent media and violent play

Answer 10

Bandura

Question 11

Copycat behavior: children model their behavior on role models seen on tv

Answer 11

Bandura

Question 12

Hypodermic syringe model

Answer 12

Marxist

Question 13

Mcdonaldisation of work: work being dumbed down for workers to create sense of consistency and predictable for customers

Answer 13

Ritzer

Question 14

People don’t act with logic or rationality but in sense of understanding and meaning

Answer 14

Mead

Question 15

Significant other who have major influence on person self identify

Answer 15

Sullivan

Question 16

Expected male and female behaviours in western countries e.g male leadership and decision making and female caring nature and emotionalism

Answer 16

Farley

Question 17

Methods of gender socialisation I.e Manipulation, Canalisation, Verbal appellations, different activities

Developed and critiqued that social expectations shape gender socialisation through secondary socialisation

Answer 17

Ann Oakley

Statham

Question 18

Difficult to avoid gender socialisation in media pressure to have unnatural body image due to media

Answer 18

Butler

Question 19

Middle class differs from working class due to having disposable income so children can afford good schooling and university

Answer 19

Savage

Question 20

Cultural capital advantage middle class children have due to being socialised into higher culture than working class as-well as school system giving them advantage over working class

Answer 20

Bourdieu (Marxist)

Question 21

Explored working class life in roherham claimed class identity due to work but now traditional working class jobs aren’t as common leads to life’s of negativity lack of culture and media over consumption

Answer 21

Charlesworth

Question 22

In addition to language food, dress and family tradition teach ethnicity

Answer 22

Modood

Question 23

Religion important in teaching Asian values of obedience, loyalty and respect among children of Asian immigrants in UK

Answer 23

Ghuman

Question 24

Religion central to way Muslim girls create identity for themselves and how Islam create moral guide

Answer 24

Butler