peers (agent of socialisation)

Question 1

how does peer group socialisation differ from socialisation by adults?

Answer 1

• demands of a peer group might contradict parent authority
• resisting authority
• may have different values

Question 2

4 ways in which peer group acts as an agent of socialisation

Answer 2

• different activities
• resistance and rebellion
• peer pressure
• recognising similarity

Question 3

peer group

Answer 3

a group of people of similar age, they will include your friends but your peer group is wider than your friends

Question 4

how do peer groups operate to ensure conformity?

Answer 4

exert pressures on individuals to copy group behaviour to be able to fit in

Question 5

why do interactionists critisize the process of socialisation?

Answer 5

norms & values will be shaped by who you interact with

Question 6

Marxist and Sewell’s ‘cultural comfort zones

Answer 6

• those in the same class will be peers
• social closure
• did most of his research on black african boys
• respond to rascism

Question 7

**Lee’s **findings

Answer 7

Lees - pressure placed on teenage girls by peers, language was applied differently between boys and girls, if girls slept around they would be ‘slags’ whereas boys would be seen as more masculine. Men are referring women and men like this as men exercising social control over women - feminists say this is patriarchy (male dominance)

Question 8

Skelton and Francais findings

Answer 8

Skelton and Francis - people played with their own, girls played with girls doing gender stereotypical activities, boys played with boys doing gender stereotypical activities and dominated most of the space