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What is socialisation?

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Process where we learn norms and values

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What is deliberate socialisation?

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socialisation that is deliberate to convey values, attitudes, skills etc

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What is unconscious socialisation?

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spontaneous interactions that have no purpose or intent

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What is social control?

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Ways behaviour is controlled and reinforced through sanctions

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What is formal social control with examples?

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directly enforce and contol population
- police
- courts
- criminal justice system
- government
- military

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What is informal socail control with examples?

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subtle control often unrecognised
- family
- peers
- education
- religion

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What are the two main types of socialisation?

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  1. primary
  2. secondary
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What are the agents of socialisation?

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  • family
  • peer group
  • education
  • workplace
  • media
  • religion
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What is primary socialisation?

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ages 0-5 where family play a key part in teach norms and values

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How doe children learn from parents?

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  • norms
  • values
  • views
  • behaviours
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How do family contribute to identity?

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teach us gender, social class and ethnic identities

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What happens without primary socialisation?

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Children do not develeop socially of cerebrally and have significant deficits that will permanently affect adulthood

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Who is Genie Wiley?

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  • kept inside for 13 yrs with no primary socialisation
  • couldnt talk, walk and was in nappies
  • lived in a cage
  • became a feral child as a result
  • couldnt make progress due to brain shrinking due to neglect
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Who is Oxana Malaya?

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  • left to a pack of dogs until age of 8
  • due to not having primary human socialisation she learnt animal like behaviour
  • became a feral child like genie
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Who did a key primary socialisation study?

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Sue Lees

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What was Sue Lees’ study?

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  • development of gender identity and awareness at ages of 5/6
  • 7-8 yr olds find being seen as a ‘typical’ boy or girl very important
  • pressure in school to conform to gender roles
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What is secondary socialisation?

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5-18 yrs and rest of life socialisation

18
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What is the most important part of secondary socialisation?

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Peer groups

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How do peer groups have influence?

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  • learn acceptable behaviour from peers
  • hierarchies form within groups
  • often a source of rebellion (youth subcultures)
20
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How is education an agent of secondary socialisation?

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  • formal and informal cirriculum as forms of social control
21
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What are the formal and informal (hidden) cirriculums?

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  • formal- educational structure in lessons
  • informal/hidden - learning values outside of formal lessons
22
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Who were two key theorists in education?

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Bowles and Gint

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What did Bowles and Gint suggest about students in education?

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  • American Marxists
  • argued that hidden cirriculum exists but didnt think it was only about values
  • education ‘giant myth machine’
  • brainwashing children to be obedient and to not question work
  • taight to accept place in society
25
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What place does media have in secondary socialisation?

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arguably most important in secondary socialisation as it often unconsiously influences our views on topics or people

26
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Who is Laura Mulvey?

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Feminist thoeorist who formed the male gaze theory. Theory which sugeests women in media are presented to fit the male preference and objectified

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What place does religion have in secondary socialisation?

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its importance is declining according to sociologists who argue uk is becoming secular- less religion

28
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What is influenced by religious views ?

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attitudes towards:
- divorce
- homosexuals
- abortion
- murder
- etc

29
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How does the workplace influence secondary socialisation?

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key for adults and can be split into informal and formal

30
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What are informal and formal socialisation agents in workplaces?

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  • formal - employee of the month and sanctions
  • informal - collegue interactions like peer groups
31
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What is ‘canteen culture’?

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set of normas and values that people in workplaces are socialised to accept

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