Socialisation Flashcards
Gillborn (1990) - Education
says the National curriculum has been described as ethnocentric, which means it teaches British values and culture as being dominant over others.
McRobbie (1970) - Media
showed that 1970s popular girls magazine Jackie, was encouraging romance and getting and keeping a man as things to be valued. ‘Slim blondness’ describes the archetypal image of the blonde female that was encourages to be copied.
Currie (1999) - Media
analysed to content of teen magazines spanning a 40 year period and noticed a dramatic increase in beautification over the years. Particularly mens magazines such as Loaded, FHM, GQ and Maxium, could be seen as outcomes of a consumer society as the magazines targeted consumer-concious males.
Voas and Crockett (2005) - religion
explore the concept of believing without belonging (BWB) in the UK and concluded there is a strong link between religious belief and belonging to a religious association.
Holden (2006) - religion
examined the attitudes of 15 year old students towards race, religion and integration. Conclusion: the students’ attitudes came from parents.
Sewell (2000) - peers
uses the concept of ‘cultural comfort zones’ to describe how peer groups tend to include people from very similar social backgrounds. In many schools students that ‘hung around’ together share the same ethnic background, social class and gender.
Ward and Winstanley (2005)
studied the process of how workers ‘came out’ and disclosed their sexuality in 6 different types of organisation: the police force, the firebrigade , two civil service departments and two banks. Concealing identity here was harder than others.
Bennett (2006)
studied a group of middle aged punks in Kent who shared the same interest and enthusiasm for Punk music, this gave them the same group coherence they has since their youth.
