Primary & Seconday Socialisation Flashcards
Socialisation definition
Way person trained to take part in society
Norms & Values shared
Culture passed from generations
Primary socialisation definition
- Family is main agent
- Parents instil cultural continuity and competence
• Parents teach how to behave, think, communicate
-specifically irt social contexts
Secondary socialisation definition
• Situations where children learn
- attitudes
- N&V
- skills
• Sources other than parents
-most important is education system
Primary & Secondary Socialisation
Albert Bandura SLT
Observation & Imitation
Claims that children learn behaviour by watching others, especially Role Models (identification) that they love and look up to
Primary socialisation process involves children in empathetic role-play (imagining themselves as someone else)
-allows them to practice interaction with others
-appreciate that certain types of behaviour in certain contexts aren’t acceptable
Play encourages children to solve problems, understand stimuli, learn about sharing intimacy, dealing with conflict, learn discipline, self-control and discover the limits of both physical/emotional power
Socialisation Relating To Identity
George Herbert Mead (1934)
Sense of Self
Children develop a sense of self-identity through interaction with other people
especially their significant others (any person who has a strong influence on an individual’s self-concept)
such as parents, grandparents and older siblings
Socialisation Relating To Identity
Charles Cooley (1998)
Looking Glass Self
Developed Mead’s ideas further
His concept of the ‘looking glass self’, states
a person’s self grows out of a person’s social interactions with others.
The view of we have of ourselves does not come from who we really are, but rather from how we believe others see us
