Socialisation and Identity Flashcards
Customs
Established and accepted cultural behaviors and practices.
Culture
The way of life of a particular group taught and learnt through socialisation.
Socialisation
A way through which people learn the different behaviours that go with membership of a particular culture.
Social construction
The idea that our perception of what is real is created through a variety of historical and cultural processes rather than something that is naturally occurring and fixed.
Roles
Expected patterns of behaviour expected with each position that we hold.
Values
Beliefs or ideas that are important to the people wo hold them.
Norms
Socially acceptable ways of behaving in different roles.
Anomie
A situation in which people are unable to predict the behaviour of others because the system of norms and values is not being followed.
Social control
Ways in which members of society are made to to conform to norms and values.
Sanctions
Ways of rewarding or punishing acceptable or unacceptable behaviour.
Agencies of socialisation
social institutions and groups that influence behaviour by providing guidance.
Family
A social institution comprising a group of people linked by kinship ties.
Marxism
political, sociological and economic school of thought based on the work of Karl Marx
Peers
People of similar status and usually age with whom one keeps frequent contact with.
Subculture
A culture within a larger culture.
Domain assumptions
Fundamental assumptions on which particular perspective or ideology based.
Interactionist
An approach focused on the behaviour of individuals that refers to the three related perspectives (phenomenology, ethnomethodology and symbolic interactionism) based on the concept of social action.
Microsociology
Sociology focused on small groups and individuals
Consensus
General agreement across societies on a set of values, seen by functionalists as essential for society to be stable
Consumerism
Repeated experience of wealthy lifestyles and desirable consumer goods that suggests that ‘happiness’ is something that can be bought.
Patriarchy
A male-dominated unit or society.
