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Identities Sociologists Flashcards

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What did McRobbie say about Gender?

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Bedroom Culture

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What did Willis say about Gender and Education?

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Lads
Anti-school subculture
Masculinity 
Peer group
Manual labour superior
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What did Mac an Ghaill say about Gender and Education?

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Macho Lads

Crisis of Masculinity

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What did Cohen say about Class?

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Status Frustration

Also used for anti-school and deviance

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What did Cohen say about Age?

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Folk Devils and Moral Panics

Deviancy amplification of Youth by media

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What did Parsons say about Age?

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Rites of passage
Transition from childhood to adulthood
Disengagement theory

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What did Oakley say about Gender?

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Primary socialisation
•Manipulation
•Canalisation
•Appellation

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What did Sewell say about Gender?

*Could also be used for Class and Ethnicity

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Hypermasculinity
Young black males
Maternal background and lack of male role models
Turn to black rap artists in media for role models

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What did Bordieu say about Class?

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Cultural, social and economic capital

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What did Blackman say about Gender?

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New Wave Girls

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What did Murray say about Class?

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Underclass
Dependent on benefits
Criticised single mothers

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What did Jackson say about Class and Gender?

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Ladettes

Changing gender identity

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What did Johal say about Ethnicity?

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Code-Switching

Hybridity

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What did McIntosh say about Sexual Identity?

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Homosexual males will live up to their label of adopting effeminate mannerisms

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What did Connell say about Gender?

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Types of masculinity 
•hegemonic
•complicit
•subordinate
•marginalised
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What did Shakespeare say about Disability?

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Disabled people are socialised to see themselves as victims

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17
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What did Nayak say about Ethnicity and Class?

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White Wannabees

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What did Scott say about Class?

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‘Old Boy Network’
Upper Class
Social closure

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What did Mackintosh and Mooney day about Class?

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Social Closure
Upper Class
Invisibility

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What did King and Rayner say about Class?

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Child-centredness

Middle class

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What did Goodwin say about Class?

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Yummie Mummies

Middle Class

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What did Saunders say about Class?

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Conspicuous Consumption

Middle Class

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What did Wright say about Class?

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Contradictory positions

Middle class

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What did Bowles and Gintis say about Class?

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Hidden Curriculum

Working class

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What did Jordan say about Class?

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Underclass feel shame and don’t have opportunities

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What did Paluski and Waters say about Class?

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Media
Shift from production to consumption
Defined by what we do

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27
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What does Offe say about Class?

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Social class is dead 
Identities are based on lifestyle choices
28
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What did Skeggs say about Class?

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Working class women had instrumental attitudes to work

29
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What did Kenway say about Class?

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Private educated girls maintained self esteem by devaluing the status and achievements of state educated young people

30
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What did Parsons say about Gender?

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Females expressive role
Males instrumental role
Due to biological aspects

31
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What did Lincoln say about Gender?

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Bedroom culture was becoming less private due to internet and less restrictions on boyfriends

32
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What does Billington say about Gender?

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Media represent masculinity as dominant and femininity as subordinate

33
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What did Nakuamura say about Gender?

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Internet is being used by women more as a forum for support when they face discrimination and inequality

34
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What does Ferguson say about Gender?

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Female magazines are based around a ‘cult of femininity’ that promotes excellence through caring for others, family, friends and appearance

35
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What did Adkins say about Gender?

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Labour market is gendered

There are jobs for men and jobs for women

36
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What did Mort say about Gender?

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The New Man

Sexualisation of the male body

37
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What did Nixon say about Gender?

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The New Man

‘Cool’ for men to care about their appearance

38
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What does Weeks say about Sexuality?

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Identifying yourself as gay or lesbian makes a statement about your identity but being straight isn’t seen as making a statement

39
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What does McCormack say about Sexuality?

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Rise in homophobia after rise in conservative politics and AIDS crisis. 6th Forms now are equal and promote diversity

40
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What does Rich say about Sexuality?

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Women’s sexuality is oppressed by men in a patriarchal society

41
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What does Skelton say about Gender?

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The hidden curriculum promotes traditional gender roles

42
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What does Colley say about Gender?

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School subject choices are based on perception of gender roles, subject preferences and learning environment

43
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What did Ghuman say about Ethnicity?

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Asian children tend to be socialised into the extended family with emphasis on duty, loyalty, honour and religious commitment

44
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What did Anwar say about Ethnicity?

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Family can be a conflict for some Asian children particularly with cultural values and Westernised culture

45
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What did Driver and Ballard say about Ethnicity?

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Indian families place great value on children’s education and push them to have high ambitious

46
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What did Archer and Francis say about Ethnicity?

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Success of British-Chinese students as parents take a stronger role in developing their children’s academic success

47
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What did Coard say about Ethnicity?

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White history and white literature dominate the curriculum and it’s ethnocentric

48
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What did Gillborn say about Ethnicity?

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Teachers are institutionally racist towards black boys, they label them and lead to a self fulfilling prophecy

49
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What did Alexander say about Ethnicity?

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‘Myth is Asian Gangs’ which was created by the media as well as Islamophobia
Brasian/Blasian

50
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What did Gill say about Ethnicity?

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Blasian

Hybridity

51
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What did Back say about Ethnicity?

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Black, Asian and White Asian youths all shared friendships, fashion and music
Hybrid identities
Trying new cultural masks and cultural borrowing

52
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What did Burdsey say about Ethnicity?

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Code switching
Family and peers
‘One of the Lads’
Laddish culture

53
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What does Phillips et al say about Ethnicity?

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National curriculum supports nationalism in history

Teaching of historical events

54
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What does Schuden say about Ethnicity?

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British people are socialised into a common culture through:
Common language
Education
National rituals
Symbols
Media
Consumerism
55
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What did Kumar say about Ethnicity?

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English national identity is elusive

Quest to expand ‘Britishness’ May have diluted ‘Englishness’

56
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What did Hall say about Ethnicity?

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3 Different reactions to globalisation:

  1. Accept it - cultural homogenisation
  2. Cultural hybridity
  3. Cultural resistance
57
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What did Bennett say about Ethnicity?

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First/Second/Third Generation Immigrant

58
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What did Brannen say about Age?

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Pivot Generation

Dual Burden

59
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What did Clarke and Warren say about Age?

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Active Ageing

University of the Third Age

60
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What did Voas say about Age?

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Religion
Generational effect
Ageing effect

61
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What did Johnson say about Age?

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Ageism is institutionalised

62
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What did Griffin say about Age?

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Youths were
Dysfunctional
Deviant
Suffering a Deficit (hard done by)

63
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What did Hockey and James say about Age?

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Old people were infantilised

64
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What did Sontag say about Age?

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In television women are required to be youthful

65
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What did Featherstone and Hepworth say about Age?

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De-differentiation: differences between stages of the life course become less clear

Deinstitutionalisation: institutions are associated with all phases of the life course

66
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What does Ridley say about Disability?

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People feel awkward being around or talking to a disabled person

67
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What did Barnes say about Disability?

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Mass media representations of Disability are negative

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