Influence of socialisation on identity

Question 1

Personal identity

Answer 1

How you view yourself

Question 2

Social identity

Answer 2

How society views you

Question 3

Ascribed status

Answer 3

Given to a person/they already have (gender / race)

Question 4

Achieved status

Answer 4

Earned (knighthood / qualifications)

Question 5

Gender

Answer 5

The state of being either male or female

Question 6

Sex

Answer 6

Either 2 of the main categories (divided by reproductive functions)

Question 7

Anne Oakley - Canalisation

Answer 7

The ‘channeling of children towards activities normal for their sex

Question 8

Anne Oakley - Manipulation

Answer 8

Encouragement of behaviour that is normal for a child / discouragement of abnormal activities for their sex

Question 9

Anne Oakley - Verbal appellations

Answer 9

Using different words / phrases for different genders

eg: good girl / atrocious boy

Question 10

Anne Oakley - Different activities

Answer 10

Promoting different activities between boys and girls

eg: girls dance / boys play football

Question 11

Social class

Answer 11

A division based on social / economic status

Question 12

Categories of class

Answer 12

• Upper
• Middle
• Lower
• Under

Question 13

Poverty porn

Answer 13

Any type of media which exploits the poor to generate sympathy for selling newspapers / sales of programme

Question 14

Owen Jones - Chavs

Answer 14

Explores how the working class become scapegoats for what’s wrong with Britain

Question 15

Paul Willis - Education

Answer 15

Attempts to explore why working class children get working class jobs

Question 16

Hybridity

Answer 16

When a society becomes more ethnically diverse and other cultures can influence one another

Question 17

Functionalist

Answer 17

Culture is learned through socialisation

Question 18

Marxists

Answer 18

Believe there is no value consensus

Question 19

Postemodern

Answer 19

Create their own identities

Question 20

Ethnicity

Answer 20

Shared culture / way of life (language, religion)

Question 21

Race

Answer 21

Signify different types of human bodies (similar skin colour)

Question 22

Christian

Answer 22

Charity work, fair-trade, Sunday church

Question 23

Muslim

Answer 23

Clothing covering head, food choices

Question 24

Rastafarian

Answer 24

Use of certain drugs / colour during worship

Question 25

National identity

Answer 25

Represented by distinctive traditions, culture, language

Question 26

Extreme nationalism

Answer 26

Having extreme pride for your country / willing to do anything (against change)

Question 27

Civic nationalism

Answer 27

Belonging to a nation as a citizen regardless of class, gender or ethnicity

Question 28

How are people socialised into their national identity?

Answer 28

Family = Parents are role models 
Media = Hypodermic syringe / drip-drip effect