peers (agent of socialisation) Flashcards
how does peer group socialisation differ from socialisation by adults?
- demands of a peer group might contradict parent authority
- resisting authority
- may have different values
4 ways in which peer group acts as an agent of socialisation
- different activities
- resistance and rebellion
- peer pressure
- recognising similarity
peer group
a group of people of similar age, they will include your friends but your peer group is wider than your friends
how do peer groups operate to ensure conformity?
exert pressures on individuals to copy group behaviour to be able to fit in
why do interactionists critisize the process of socialisation?
norms & values will be shaped by who you interact with
Marxist and Sewell’s ‘cultural comfort zones
- those in the same class will be peers
- social closure
- did most of his research on black african boys
- respond to rascism
**Lee’s **findings
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)
Skelton and Francais findings
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