Socialisation

Question 1

What is primary socialisation

Answer 1

Socialisation of young kids in the family where they learn essential skills
Informal

Question 2

What is secondary socialisation

Answer 2

Starts when a child goes to school, judged on exam success
Learn skills for adult role

Question 3

What is adult socialisation

Answer 3

Life long process of meaning and development

Question 4

Further types of socialisation: what is anticipatory socialisation

Answer 4

When people learn the culture of a group with anticipation of joining that group

Question 5

Further types of socialisation: what is re-socialisation

Answer 5

Process of fish adding former behaviour patterns, accepting new ones as part of a transition in one’s life

Question 6

What is socialisation

Answer 6

The process by which we learn things that make us ‘fit in’

Question 7

What is an agent of socialisation

Answer 7

Social institutions which help us learn the norms and values of a society
They carry out social control

Question 8

What is formal social control

Answer 8

Physically written rules

Question 9

What is informal social control

Answer 9

Unwritten rules

Question 10

What is status

Answer 10

The position that someone occupies in society

Question 11

What is an ascribed status

Answer 11

Status someone is born with

Question 12

What is achieved status

Answer 12

Earned by own effort

Question 13

What is master status

Answer 13

Status the overrides all other statuses E.g disability

Question 14

What do functionalist think about the role of socialisation

Answer 14

Benefits all of society
Socialisation is to interstate individuals into society - internalising societies norms and values

Question 15

What theory do functionalist believe about the role of socialisation

Answer 15

Personality factory - Parson
People as social beings are no more than the values, belief and expectations that operate in the social system we are apart of
Family mould a child’s personality though different social relations

Question 16

What do Marxists think about the role of socialisation

Answer 16

Society is characterised by social class inequality
Education system is maintaining social control - gets working class to accept norms and values of the dominant class

Question 17

Marxist: Samuel Bowles + Herbert Gintis finding

Answer 17

Schooling encourages behaviour that are needed for working class in capitalist society eg obedience

Question 18

What do feministis think of the role of socialisation

Answer 18

Reinforces patriarchy and gender inequality
Education: formal curriculum and informal curriculum reinforce hierarchy of men and domestic/ submissive roles of women

Question 19

What does interactionalism think of the role of socialisation

Answer 19

Mead - socialisation of self occurs through interactions with others
Through playing children develop and see reactions of others

Question 20

What do post modernists think of the roles of socialisation

Answer 20

We as consumers can choose our identity and pick the norms and customs we want to follow
Not socialised or don’t for someone else’s gain but our own