Family - The process of socialisation

Question 1

What is the family considered as?

Answer 1

The foundation of society

Question 2

What is presented as the ideal family type in contemporary UK?

Answer 2

The nuclear family

Question 3

What is the nuclear family

Answer 3

A stable family consisting of a man and woman who are married and their own children

Question 4

In 2004 what percentage of families were headed by a married couple?

Answer 4

70%

Question 5

In 2004 how many dependent children lived in lone parent families?

Answer 5

1 in 4

Question 6

In 2004 what percentage was estimated as living in reconstituted families?

Answer 6

10%

Question 7

What aspects of the family have an impact on relationships within the family? 3

Answer 7

• the way parents balance work and family
• Number, age, and gender of siblings
• life expectancy increases - different dimension to family life - more caring for parents

Question 8

What is shift parenting? 4

Answer 8

Both parents in paid employment
Work complementary shifts
Share childcare
Rarely spend time as a family together

Question 9

In what ways does the family socialise the young which means it is the most important agent of primary socialisation? 3

Answer 9

• Basic norms and values of everyday life
• Positive and negative sanctions to encourage appropriate behaviour
• Gender roles

Question 10

How does the family teach the basic norms and values of everyday life?

Answer 10

• Imitation
• Role models within the family unit
• The basic norms reflect the values e.g. eating with the family at mealtimes can reflect the importance of maintaining close relationships

Question 11

Example of positive sanction?

Answer 11

Stickers for appropriate behaviour

Question 12

Example of negative sanction?

Answer 12

Withholding computer time to punish for inappropriate behaviour

Question 13

How do gender roles impact a childs socialisation? 3

Answer 13

• The child will take on the values that the parents hold. e.g. dad goes out to work, mum stays at home for housework.
• May influence his ideas of male being breadwinner and woman having main role of carer
• Although other factors will impact this ideology later for future decisions

Question 14

What issues will effect the process of the family socialising the children?

Answer 14

• Structural issues
• Geographical Issues
• Social Class
• Ethnicity

Question 15

Example of structural issue

Answer 15

family size

Question 16

Example of geographical issue

Answer 16

where other family members live (how the relationship is between them)

Question 17

What may reduce the effectiveness of the family being the best primary agent of socialisation?

Answer 17

Pressures on parenting reduce effectiveness

Question 18

What was Postman concerned with

Answer 18

The quality of socialisation as children spent so much time using media e.g. TV

Question 19

What did Professor Blum suggest? 5

Answer 19

For the family to be an effective agent of socialisation the parents had to be available at 4 key times in the day;
morning
immediately after school
mealtimes
bedtime

Question 20

What is an example of what happens when children are denied human contact?

Answer 20

Feral children

e.g. Amala and Kamala

Question 21

What does Morgan suggest socialisation is about?

Answer 21

Encouraging conformity and control