Culture Theorists Flashcards
Breaking rules gives people considerable advantage but most people don’t commit serious crimes believes criminals and deviants lack proper socialisation
Travis Hirschi (Functionalists)
Socialisation is the process by which humans learn and internalise their cultures norms and values
Threes stages of socialisation
Talcott Parsons (Functionalists)
People who behave in strange way lack socialisation rather than knowing and choosing to not follow rule
Talcott Parsons
Habitus (similar patterns and actions of family)
Pierre Bourdieu (Marxist)
Secondary socialisation helped individual develop separate identity to deal with strangers
Talcott Parsons
School teaches children to accept an unfair society
Althusser
1970s/80s school textbooks either ignored women or placed them in domestic roles
Feminists
Collective conscience- impossible to have social life without set of socially accepted and shared norms and values religion embodies this idea
Durkheim
Children have little choice but to take on parents belief and those beliefs may become a normal part of their life
Erikson
Direct link between exposure of violent media and violent play
Bandura
Copycat behavior: children model their behavior on role models seen on tv
Bandura
Hypodermic syringe model
Marxist
Mcdonaldisation of work: work being dumbed down for workers to create sense of consistency and predictable for customers
Ritzer
People don’t act with logic or rationality but in sense of understanding and meaning
Mead
Significant other who have major influence on person self identify
Sullivan
Expected male and female behaviours in western countries e.g male leadership and decision making and female caring nature and emotionalism
Farley
Methods of gender socialisation I.e Manipulation, Canalisation, Verbal appellations, different activities
Developed and critiqued that social expectations shape gender socialisation through secondary socialisation
Ann Oakley
Statham
Difficult to avoid gender socialisation in media pressure to have unnatural body image due to media
Butler
Middle class differs from working class due to having disposable income so children can afford good schooling and university
Savage
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
Bourdieu (Marxist)
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
Charlesworth
In addition to language food, dress and family tradition teach ethnicity
Modood
Religion important in teaching Asian values of obedience, loyalty and respect among children of Asian immigrants in UK
Ghuman
Religion central to way Muslim girls create identity for themselves and how Islam create moral guide
Butler
complained that idea of perfect body image was means to control and exploit women
Naomi Wolf
