Induction Workbook Flashcards
What is nature?
Nature refers to the idea that social behaviour is biological or innate.
What is nurture?
Behaviour that is taught
What is primary socialisation?
Learning behaviours and attitudes through agents like family
What is secondary socialisation
Behaviour learnt through agents other than family such as the media, education, peer group, work and religion
What does hegemonic mean?
Traditional
Formal social control definition
The means of social control exteriors by the government and organisations. Use social controls based on laws and rules
Informal social control definition
A way to reinforce society’s norms and values to individuals via agents of socialisation such ass media or peers
What are norms?
Unwritten rules which guide our behaviour in society, they are based on values
What are values?
Society’s standard fir what’s good in society
What is status?
Someone’s position in a particular setting
Roles definition
It is a part you play in society
Culture definition
Set of values norms and assumptions about the world
Subculture definition
A subculture refers to a smaller group within a larger culture (or a minority section of a majority culture)
What is high culture?
This is culture of the upper class.
What is popular culture
This is the culture of ordinary people, people engage in mass forms of entertainment
