Socialisation, Culture And Identity Flashcards

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Define nature

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Referring largely to genetics
Eg. Genes and hormones

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Define nurture

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The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual
Eg. Family and location

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Define norms

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Rules or expectations that are socially enforced

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Define values

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A cultures standard for discerning what is good and just ,in society

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What is the definition of identity

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How you see yourself which is affected by how others see you
A product of your experiences growing up

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What are the key identities

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Social class
Gender
Ethnic
Age
National
Sexual
Disabled

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Which side of the nature vs nurture debate do sociologists prefer and why

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Nurture - they are more interested in the role played by social influences

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What is socialisation

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When you are taught how to act in a society

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What happens during socialisation

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Individuals learn the behaviours, rules, things that are valued and regulations within a society

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What are agents of socialisation

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People and things that socialise individuals

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What are the two types of socialisation

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Primary and secondary

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What is primary socialisation

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The period early on in a persons life in which they begin to learn initial behaviours and build themselves up based on experiences and interactions

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What are the agents of socialisation

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Family
Education
Peer groups
Religion
Work place
Media
Government

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What are the processes of social control

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Positive sanctions, role models, peer pressure, official rules, praise, play, negative sanctions, criticism, repetition, inclusion, exclusion, imitation, rewards, stereotyping, deliberate instruction

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What are the characteristics of positive sanctions as a process of social control

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It can be given by family, education, peers, workplaces
It can be both informal or formal

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What are the characteristics of role models as a process of social control

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Can be in terms of media, family, religion, education
It is informal

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What are the characteristics of peer pressure as a form of social control

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It can be from peers or media
It is informal

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What are the characteristics of official rules as a process of social control

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Can be in education, work or within religion
Is a formal method

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What are the characteristics of praise as a form of social control

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Can be given by family, education, work, peers or media
Can be both formal and informal

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What are the characteristics of play as a form of social control

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Can be experienced with family peers and within education
Is an informal form

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What are the characteristics of negative sanctions as a form of social control

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Can be given by family, education, peers, workplaces
Can be both informal and formal

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What are the characteristics of criticism as a form of social control

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It can be given by family, peers, workplaces education or media
It can be both informal and formal

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What are the characteristics of repetition as a form of social control

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Can be given by religion, education, work, family
It can be both formal and informal

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What are the characteristics of inclusion as a form of social control

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Can be experienced with family, education, work, peers, or religion
Can be both formal and informal

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What are the character of imitation as a form of social control
It can be experienced with family, religion, peers or media It is informal
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What are the characteristics of rewards as a process of social control
Can be received from family, work, education or peers Can be both formal and informal
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What are the characteristics of exclusion as a form of social control
It can be experienced from family, education, peers, work, religion or media It can be both formal and informal
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What are the characteristics of deliberate instruction as a form of social control
It can be received from family, education, work or religion It is usually for a,
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What are the characteristics of stereotyping as a form of social control
Can be experienced from media, peers, education Can be both formal and informal
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What is secondary socialisation
The way behaviour is learnt through agents other than the family such as media, education, peer groups, work and religion
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What is social control
The process of persuading or forcing individuals to conform to norms and values
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What is formal social control
Mechanisms to reward or punish acceptable or unacceptable behaviour associated with police, courts, government and military
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What is informal social control
Mechanisms to reward or punch acceptable or unacceptable behaviour however they are varied and different from group to group They are associated with informal agents of socialisation such as family, media, peer groups, religion, education and the work place
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What are sanctions
Actions that discourage or encourage particular behaviour
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What are some examples of norms
- to pay for things in the shop - to follow instructions - not to hit people - to ask someone what is wrong if they are crying
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What are some examples of values
- one should be polite - one should not lie - one should not steal - one should think of others feelings
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What does it mean that norms and values are relative
They are not fixed and can change over time and from culture to culture
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Define role
A part a person plays within a group or situation which requires a person to carry out specific behaviours
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Define status
Relative social or professional position/standing
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What is ascribed status
Status that a person is born with such as being in the royal family
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What is achieved status
Status that you work for such as your job
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What is a spectacular subculture
A social group who subscribes to the norms and values of the mainstream society but they may also have some norms and values that are distinct from the rest of society
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What are some examples of spectacular subcultures
Goth Emo Hipster
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What is high culture
The culture of the elite and upper class It is formed by people who believe that only people with good breeding and with appropriate education can appreciate the cultures artistic and aesthetic quality
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What are some activities associated with high culture
Lacrosse Opera Horse riding Formal dinner/dances
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What is popular culture
Culture of ordinary people which is influenced by the media Borrows the idea from high culture and popularises it to the masses
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What is global culture
The world had become increasingly interconnected and so certain trends and cultures have spread worldwide
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What is consumer culture
A culture in which the consumption of goods and services is the norm
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What is cultural diversity
A culture that includes a diverse range of groups from different cultural backgrounds living separately in society
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What is multiculturalism
Different cultures living equally in society
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What are the different classifications of identity
Social class identity Gender identity Sexual identity Ethnic identity National identity Age identity Disability identity
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What is identity
How you see yourself and how others see you
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What is stratification
Division of society into hierarchically ordered layers with the most privileged at the top and the least favoured at the bottom Exists in capitalists society and is based on class
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What are the different social classes
Upper, middle, working (lower)
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What are the 12 indicators of classifying social class
Income Occupation Speech Wealth Type of house Clothing Area lived in Car Dialect Educational qualifications Political party supported Leisure activities
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What is the theoretical approach to social class
Sociologists have different ideas about which classes exist and why Eg. Marxists suggest there are only two social class groups 1. Those who own the means of production 2. Those who need to sell their labour power
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What is the descriptive approach to social class
Ranking people into hierarchy based on a number of social indicators Eg. The registrar generals scale and the NSSEC
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What is the subjective approach to social class
Asking people to rate themselves
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What is the objective approach to social class
Uses a measurement of class by asking respondent questions based on indicators such as income and occupation
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Describe the registrar generals scale
Created in 1911 and used until 1990s Based on people’s standing in community Suggests a two class model
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Describe the national statistics socioeconomic classification
Used from 1997 Changed from 13 categories to 8 Ranks occupations according to similarities of qualifications
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What are the seven modern classes of social class
Elite Eastaboushed middle class Technical middle class New affluent workers Traditional working class Emergent service workers Precariat or precarious proletariat
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What is the elite class
The most privileged group due to its wealth
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What is the established middle class
Second wealthiest Largest and most gregarious group
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What is the technical middle class
Small and distinctive new class group which is prosperous Distinguished by its social isolation and cultural apathy
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What is the class of new affluent workers
A young class group which is socially and culturally active with middling levels of economic capital
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What is the traditional working class
Not completely deprived but scores low on all capital Reasonably high house values Oldest average age of 66
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What are emergent service workers
A new young urban group which is relatively poor but has high social and cultural capital
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What are the precariats
The poorest most deprived class, scoring low for social and cultural capital
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What are characteristics of Scott’s upper class
Ascribed status Economic/social/cultural capital Social closure Privileged and common education Old boy network
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What are characteristics of Scott’s middle class
Associated with professions such as doctors, teachers and white collar jobs Own houses in desirable places Focus on consumerism High level of educational achievement
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What are characteristics of Scott’s working class
Jobs based in manual and unskilled labour Traditional gender roles Community is strong with sense of unity Immediate gratification
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What are characteristics of giddens super rich
Jet set pop aristocracy Achieved status Economic/social capital Entrepreneurial rich
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What are characteristics of giddens new middle class
Fragmented New manual occupations have become more middle class More social mobility Focus on consumerism High level
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What are characteristics of giddens new working class
Lives more private Employment based on service sector and flexible occupations Shared responsibility in home Increasing influence
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What is sex
Refers to the biological differences between males and females e.g. genitals/stature.
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What is gender
Refers to the cultural classification of people as masculine or feminine. Society set down expectations of how each gender is encouraged to think, feel and act
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What is hegemonic femininity
The dominant/traditional style of femininity with characteristics about being passive, subordinate and quiet
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What is hegemonic masculinity
The dominant/traditional style of masculinity which stresses toughness, aggression and being the breadwinner
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What is femininity as a whole
Characteristics associated with being a woman which has an effect on female behaviour - they can change
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What is masculinity as a whole
Characteristics associated with being a man which has an effect on masculine behaviour - they can be changed
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What is biological determinism
When something is defined by biology. It is natural and a product of genetics
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What is social constructionism
When something is defined by society - built by social processes rather than being natural
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What is the instrumental role
Men as breadwinner and provider
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What is the expressive role
Women as a caregiver, looking after the home and children
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Who studied the family and hegemonic femininity
Oakley
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Who studied the peer groups, family and hegemonic femininity
McRobbie Lincoln
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Who studied the media and hegemonic femininity
Nakuamura Billington Ferguson
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Who studied the education system and hegemonic femininity
Skelton Kelly Colley
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Who studied the workplace and hegemonic femininity
Adkins
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What did Oakley find for how family socialises girls into hegemonic femininity
Manipulation - encouraging or discouraging gender appropriate behaviour Canalisation - parents directing children’s interest into certain toys and play Verbal appellations - parents using stereotypical gender based descriptions Differential activities - daughters are expected to do housework and males are expected to do laborious roles
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What did McRobbie find for how family socialises girls into hegemonic femininity
Boys and girls are treated differently by parents Boys given more freedom and spent time out of the house but girls were “protected” and stayed home This led to bedroom culture as girls hid in their rooms to avoid harassment and humiliation from boys
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What did Lincoln find for how family and peer groups socialises girls into hegemonic femininity
Bedroom culture still existed in 1990s with the bedroom being reserved for female friendships However due to the internet becoming more prominent, they were more likely to allow males into their rooms
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What did Billington find for how media socialises girls into hegemonic femininity
Masculinity is presented as dominant Femininity is presented as subordinate
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What did Nakuamura find for how media socialises girls into hegemonic femininity
Although women are stereotyped in the media, they turn to it as a forum of support when facing discrimination and inequality
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What did Ferguson find for how media socialises girls into hegemonic femininity
She conducted a content analysis of female magazines and counted how many times certain topics were covered Women’s magazines were based around a cult of femininity - excellence is achieved through caring for others, family, marriage and appearance
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What did Skelton find for how education system socialises girls into hegemonic femininity
The hidden curriculum Teachers may persuade students that some subjects are more suitable for either sex Students may have preconceived opinions due to lack of role models for certain subjects
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What did Kelly find for how education system socialises into hegemonic identity
Science is seen as a male subject due to textbooks only containing images of boys and things that would interest them Boys dominate science classrooms by shouting out and grabbing equipment first
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What did Colley find for how education system socialises girls into hegemonic femininity
1) Perception of the gender roles = Whether pupils choose typically masculine and feminine subjects depends on the extent to which they have been socialised into typically masculine or feminine identity. 2) Subject preferences = Males and females choose subjects based on their perception of the type of tasks and activities required in the subject. For example, it is argued that girls are put off IT due to dominance of independent work on based on computers and attracted to Sociology due to the fact that it is seen to incorporate more opportunities for talking and discussion. 3) Learning environment = Subject choices are also influenced by whether or not the school is single sex or mixed sex.
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What did Adkins find for how workplace socialises into hegemonic identity
Males and females experienced horizontal and vertical segregation
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What is horizontal segregation
Where the workforce of a specific industry or sector is mostly made up of one particular gender
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What is vertical segregation
Opportunities for career progression for a particular gender within a company or sector are limited. This can lead to gender-related inequalities like the gender pay gap
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Who studied the education system and hegemonic masculinity
Mitsos & Browne Willis Kelly
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Who studied the workplace and hegemonic masculinity
Willis Mac an Ghaill
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Who studied the media and hegemonic masculinity
Easthorpe
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Who studied the media and hegemonic masculinity
Easthorpe
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What did Mitsos and Browne find about hegemonic masculinity and the education system
Teachers tend to be less strict with boys, allowing them to underachieve Teachers label boys as disruptive, causing them to form a culture of masculinity which does not value educational achievement, hindering their ability
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What did Mitsos and Browne find about hegemonic masculinity and the education system
Teachers tend to be less strict with boys, allowing them to underachieve Teachers label boys as disruptive, causing them to form a culture of masculinity which does not value educational achievement, hindering their ability
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What did Willis find about hegemonic masculinity and the education system
The lads knew they would end up in manual labour jobs and so formed anti-school cultures and didn’t value education Their subculture matched that of the men working in facotries on the shop floor which distracted the. From the boredom and monotony of work
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What did Mac an Ghaill find about hegemonic masculinity and the workplace
Working class men face a “crisis of masculinity” as they have lost traditional jobs due to deindustrialisation and are unprepared for other jobs as the workplace became more feminised
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What did Easthorpe find about hegemonic masculinity and the media
Hollywood and computer games portray men as being strong, aggressive, competitive and violent Because these characteristics are biologically determined, boys had a goal to be this way
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What do post modernists argue about changing identities
There are a range of feminine and masculine identities available which are a mix of both traditional and non traditional Transgender movement is growing as parents raise children with no clear gender identity
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Who studied the new range of acceptable masculine identities
Connell
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Who studied how the media/peers socialise boys into a changing masculine identity
Sewell
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Who studied how the media socialises boys into hegemonic masculinity
Nixon & Mort
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What were the four new forms of masculinity that Connell came up with
Hegemonic - traditional/dominant forms Complicit - men who believe men and women should share roles within the family Subordinate - masculinities which are less powerful and carry lower status Marginalised - held by men who did traditionally masculine jobs and feel their masculinity is threatened now
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What did Sewell find for how media/peers socialise boys into a changing masculine identity
A new hyper-masculinity that is displayed my black Caribbean males who adopt an exaggerated version of hegemonic traditional masculinities This is due to their lack of positive black, make role models
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What did Nixon find for how media socialises into changing masculine identities
The origins of the new man roots back to the 1985 Levi’s advert Advert presented the notion that it could now be cool for men to spend their time, money and effort on appearance
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What did mort find for how media socialises into a changing masculine identity
Consumption patterns changed due to how men were portrayed Rise in magazines so consumption changed based off of what was advertised Men were sexualised for the first time in Laydrette video
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Who studied how media socialises girls into a changing feminine identity
Lincoln
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Who studied how education system socialises girls into a changing feminine identity
Sharpe
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Who studied how media/peers socialises girls into a changing feminine identity
Jackson
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What did Jackson find about changing feminine identities and the media and peer groups
Women started to adopt masculine traits such as swearing, fighting, drinking and being loud Created a double standards Formed the ladettes Negative media portrayals of ladettes
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What is race?
Perceived biological or physical differences between groups for example skin colour
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What is ethnicity?
Cultural differences between groups based on aspects such as religion, language country of origin, customs norms values, food dress and music
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Why is race an outdated contact?
Early scientist attempted to classify humans into types Has been used justified domination and abuse of one ethnic group by another but genetic differences are only small
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How has the modern English language in itself become racist?
Black is used to describe things that are unpleasant
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What does ethnicity mean? And why is it a more useful concept than race?
Being a part of a group of people who share a culture that consists of particular traditions and beliefs. More contemporary more sociological.
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What is cultural simulation?
Immigrant groups becoming so established in Britain that is difficult to recognise that they were ever non-British
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What is an ethnic group?
A group to share the same cultural background
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What is an ethnic minority group?
A group you share the same cultural background, but which is different to that of the majority culture in the country where they reside
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What is nationality?
It refers to your country origin or the country where you are legally entitled to reside for example British. This also gives you rights in that country such as a vote or have a passport.
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What is an immigrant?
Someone who has moved from their country to permanently reside in another
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What is an asylum seeker?
Someone who seeks refuge in another country for a temporary period if it is too dangerous for them to be in their own country for example due to war or religious persecution
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What is an illegal immigrant?
Someone who is not legally entitled to live in a country for example they may have entered the country illegally or simply outstayed their Visa
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What is racism?
Negative attitude or behaviours towards a personal group due to their racial or ethnic background
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What is institutional racism?
When the way an organisation operates for example its policies and practices have the unconscious effective discriminating against in a disadvantage in certain ethnic groups
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What is a assimilation?
When an ethnic minority group become absorbed in the culture of the ethnic majority and adopt common or shared norms and values and drop their own
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What is integration?
When ethnic minorities become a part of the majority culture in adopt their norms values and cultural practices. This has led to multiculturalism
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What is cultural/ethnic resistance?
The ethnic minority group unite together and strengthen their own ethnic identities as a way of fighting/resisting the racism they faced from the ethnic majority
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Who studied how the family and peer group socialise first generation immigrants into traditional ethnic identity?
Cash ore & Troyna, Hebdige
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Who studied how the family and religion socialise individual traditional ethnic identities through passing on traditional norms and values?
Ghuman, Anwar, Butker
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Who studied how the education system socialise individuals into traditional ethnic identities?
Driver &Ballard, Archer & Francis, Coard, Gillborn
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Who studied how the media socialised individuals into a traditional ethnic identity?
Alexander, Hall, Sewell
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What did Cashmore & Troyna find about the peer group and family socialising into traditional ethnic identities
Immigrant groups faced open hostility and discrimination in the labour market housing and education They responded by finding ways in which their ethnicity could be reassured They turned inwards for support within the community Black immigrants experience racism which unified their culture and identity Racism regarded all different black ethnic groups is the same
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What did Hebdige find regarding the family and peer group socialising first generation immigrants into a traditional ethnic identity?
They resisted mainstream/dominant culture Riots and street fighting could be seen as evidence of this Rastafarianism is a resistance to racism
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What is cultural hybridity?
Refers to the mixing of two or more cultures together to create a new culture and identity. This occurred in the UK due to immigration and the integration of some ethnic groups within the host community.
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What is multiculturalism?
The idea that UK society is now made up of a variety of different ethnic groups and cultures who will mix together. Barker argues that multicultural society acknowledges and welcomes the presence of a range of different groups.
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What is cultural homogenisation?
The spread of one global culture-generally based on the western advertising/consumerism/pop culture. This is a productive globalisation.
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What is cultural diversity?
It describes the variety of different cultures in the UK who live in separate communities. Cultural diversity can be based around ethnicity, sexuality or moral principles.
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How did Ghuman find that the family socialises individuals into traditional ethnic identity through passing on traditional norms and values?
He suggested the Asian parents socialise their children into a particular set of values which are slightly different to those of the British culture. Children are brought up to be obedient, loyal and respectful of their elders. Parents thought that they should choose marriage partners and they taught their children about the problems with premarital sex and love marriages. Children were often taught their mother’s language as well as English.
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How did Anwar find that the family socialise is individuals into traditional ethnic identity through passing on traditional norms and values?
He explains that the family can be a source of conflict for some Asian children particularly around the issues of Western clothes, arrange marriage and freedom The younger generation mixed with others at school who hold different cultural values to them and this influences their identities. This can cause arguments when a culture clashes created-honour and reputation are extremely important to their parents. Girls tend to be given less freedom and expected to conform to the traditional roles of becoming wives and mothers.
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What did Butler find regarding ethnicity?
Second generation Muslims experienced tensions between British and Asian and culture which can strongly influence their attitudes towards their religion the family put pressure on the control of women and girls as it is believed that their whole feature of their community rests with them For these girls being Pakistani or Bangladeshi wasn’t important, but they defined their ethnicity and identity as Muslim These Asian girls blame their Asian identity/cultural norms and values for the focus on traditional values. These cultural values controlled the girls and placed them within the home. They felt this was not due to the teachings of Islam which was their key source of identity?
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What did Anwar find about ethnicity
Second generation Muslims experience tensions between British and Asian culture which can strongly influence their attitudes towards their religion and the values of their community as a whole
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What did Watson find about ethnicity
A generation gap is emerging between Muslims and Britain
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What did Joly find about ethnicity
Emphasis is placed on the control of women and girls as it is believe that the whole future of their community rests with them (they will be the ones transmit Muslim value used to the following generations as mothers)
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What did Shaw find about ethnicity
Muslim women in Britain are likely to experience a great degree of conflict with traditional culture because their role confined them to the family home and they are denied freedom
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How did driver and Ballard find that the education system socialises individuals into a traditional ethnic identity?
They argue the Asian families place a great value on their children’s education. They post their children have high ambitions to gain the best possible grades. This is reflected in the achievements of Indian people who do better than black-and-white groups on average GCSE and this may lead them into a certain type of care.
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How did archer and Francis find that the education system socialise individuals into traditional ethnic identity?
Cultural factors are important to explain explaining the success of British and Chinese students Education educational success is a part of their identity When boys engage in Laddish behaviour they still maintain a commitment to school Parents also took a stronger role and developing their academic success as they continually talk to their children about their future education and invested time and money and supporting their children even when they had little money to spare parents were happy to push their children and were critical of white British parents who was seen as allowing failure to develop
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How did Coard find that education system socialises individuals into a traditional ethnic identity?
Yogis that the curriculum which has taught in most British schools is ethnocentric which means they focus on one particular culture which is British culture. This is evidence through the holidays which are given, the festivals which are celebrated and the focus of some subjects. For example, example history lessons cover British history in English literature looks at British novels.
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How did Gillborn find that the education system socialises individuals into a traditional ethnic identity?
He argues that black males are seen as a threat and disruptive by teachers. They negatively stereotype and label them. They are less likely to be entered for high GCSE papers. This can lead to the self-fulfilling property.
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How did Alexander find that the media socialisers individuals into a traditional ethnic identity?
Alexander study found the Asian nudes in East London were fairly targeted by police and the media. The meth of the Asian gang was created by the media reported violent clashes between black and Asian gangs, creating a mud panic. These clashes were exaggerated in Alexander argues the Asian boys were criminal as a result of Islamophobia.
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How did hall find that the media socialise is individuals into traditional ethnic identity
The white eyes states that traditionally films portrayed black people in one of three ways: natives, entertainers or slaves. The white timing means we see the representation of ethnic minorities in a way that White director and present them, not true reflection. But also seen more positively in TV, music and films now.
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How did Moghissi find that the media socialises individuals into a traditional ethnic identity?
She states that Muslims are huddled together in the media. she found that since 911 a moral panic has been created surrounding Islam-women are presented as victims of honour killings and males is terrorists
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How did Sewell find that the media socialises individuals into a traditional ethnic identity?
He claims that young black Afro Caribbean males follow the hyper masculine role models often shown in rap music videos on MTV. This helps them to create a gangster identity where they achieve status amongst their pay group for wearing the right designer clothes and trainers, through being aggressive and through not working hard at school.
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Who studied how the peer group helps individuals create a hybrid identity?
Back, Gill
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Who studied how the peer group and family helps individuals create a hybrid identity?
Burdsey
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Who studied how the media helps individuals create a hybrid identity?
Nayak
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How did les back find that the peer group helps individuals create a hybrid identity
He studied young people in a housing estate in South London. He found that white, black and Asian Utes were all friends. They spoke the same slang was similar clothes and we’re interested in the same music stars. He claimed this was evidence of new hybrid identities and that these youths were trying out new cultural masks.
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How did Gill find that the pair group helps individuals create a hybrid identity?
He studied British Asian student and identified a number of them as Blasian meaning they adopted black cultural styles and combine them with that Asian culture
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How did Burdsey find that the pair group and family helps individuals create a hybrid identity?
Second and third generation British Asians switched between white and Asian identities which was called code switching. They were white masks with their pears but were Asian with their families. They were conflicted between Laddish behaviour and Asian identity Asian footballers who succeeded often had jewel identities they are adopted white masks with their football teammate
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How did Nayak find that the media helps individuals create a hybrid identity
Young white working class males adopted the styles and languages of black culture and were titled white wannabe
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What is code switching?
The way in which some ethnic groups behave differently with family and with their peers
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What are cultural comfort zones?
Attorney used to describe the way some ethnic minorities for repair groups with those from the same ethnic background as this makes them feel more comfortable
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What is an ethnocentric curriculum?
A curriculum based around dominant culture for example in the UK the school curriculum is based around white British history, literature, politics
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What is hyper masculinity?
Term used to describe the identities of black males who follow role models from rap videos
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What is a Blasian identity
In the UK this refers to to young Asians who adopt black ethnic identities
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What does Brasian mean
British Asians, who combine British and Asian identities together
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What are dual identities?
Ones which have more than one ethnic identity for example British and Asian
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What is cultural borrowing?
The mix sharing of different styles and cultures for example, white and Asians listening to rap music
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What is a cultural mask?
Young people adopt or try out new ethnic identities, different their own
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Who focuses on how the family socialises children/young people in a traditional age identity
Parsons
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Who focuses on how the family socialises children/young people in a traditional age identity
Parsons
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Who focuses on how the media socialises children/young people in a traditional age identity
Griffin/Heintz-Knowles
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Who focuses on how the peer group socialises children/young people in a traditional age identity
McRobbie/Sewell
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Who focuses on how the education system socialises children/young people in a traditional age identity
Sewell/Willis
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How did Parsons find that the family socialise his children and young people in traditional age identity?
Childhood is a period when socialisation takes place. Children learn the norms and values associated with different social roles which enables them to contribute society as adults. The family has two main functions: the primary socialisation of children and the stabilisation of adult personalities of population of society. Adolescence is a time when children begin to develop independence and it is vital that they developed this and shift from their parent to their marriage partner.
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How did Griffin find that the media socialises children and young people into traditional age identity?
The media portrays youths as a social problem in three ways: dysfunctional, suffering a deficit and deviant. This may result in socially constructed idea about what young people are like which creates a moral panic.
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How did Heintz-Knowles find that the media socialise children and young people into a traditional age identity?
She conducted a content analysis to see how children are portrayed and found that children motivated most by peer relationships in romance, entertainment television hardly shows children children grappling with important issues, majority of characters engage in antisocial behaviours, children from minority ethnic groups are under represented and boys and girls are most almost equally represented. They are important differences. These stereotypes are based on an adult perception of a child.
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How did McRobbie and Garber find that the peer groups socialise as children and young people into a traditional age identity?
The term bedroom culture was used to describe the ways girls in their year spend their leisure time with their pair groups. They are socialised into traditional gentle norms via a cult of femininity and idolise popstars and spend time on their appearance in order to attract the opposite sex.
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How did Sewell find that the peer group socialise children and young people into traditional age identities?
Young black Afro Caribbean boys display characteristics of a distinct youth subculture. It is characterise by being hyper masculine and members gain status by trying to imitate aspects of black role models. Pair group membership is an essential part of shaping identity among marginalised young African Caribbean youth as it gives me a sense of belonging.
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What is an anti-school subculture?
Ones which are negative about school. They reject the school rules and don’t conform at school. They get status from their friends and by not conforming.
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How did Sewell find the education system socialise his children young people into a traditional age .identity?
Membership to appear group may not be the only way to gain a sense of identity and status. Young black boys often have no high achieving career ranges or goals and therefore reject school as they see as irrelevant. They have a rich quick attitude meaning they want to make money through drug selling rather than academic achievement.
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How did Willis find that the education system socialise the children young people in traditional age identity?
The working class lads often have no career aims or goals and rejected school because they see it as relevant to them and the manual labour jobs they will end up with. They were fatalistic unfollowed in their father’s footsteps unskilled work. They did not see a need for academic achievement. Peer pressure is often used to encourage disruptive behaviour.
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What are the two definitions of age?
Chronologically the duration of the measure of time of an existence of a person Stages within a life course consisting of young middle and old age which is based on social constructions
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What is the right of passage that the Nuer tribe have to complete?
They receive facial markings as part of their initiation into adulthood. One common pattern consist of six parallel horizontal lines across the forehead with dips above the nose.
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What is the right of passage the Amazon Satere Mawé tribe have to complete
In order to become men boys as young as 12 have to wear ceremonial gloves filled with stinging bullet ants. Each ant packs neurotoxins that cause pain 30 times more organising than the sting of a common wasp. You have to wear the glove for 10 minutes 20 times in order to become a man.
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What is the right of passage that takes place on the south Pacific Island of Pentecost?
Boys as young as five years old engaged in a form of Bondi jumping. Men jump from a makeshift tower as high as 100 feet with vines tied around that ankles. Land diving is a multipurpose ritual: a right of passage, a way to appease the gods and to ensure a good yam harvest. The whole point is that the jumpers head should reach the ground.
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What is the right of passage that the Matausa tribes men have to complete
In Papua New Guinea they believe that in order for timid boys to become brave men and attract women. They have to expel the contaminating female blood they got from their mothers during childbirth. They undergo brutal bloodletting rituals that involve shoving canes down their throat sharp breeds up their nostrils and plunging sharp arrows repeatedly into their tongues.
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Who studied how the family socialise his middle aged people in traditional age identity?
Brannen
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Who studied how the media socialise his middle-aged people and a traditional age identity?
Saunders
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Who studied how the parent group socialise middle-aged people into traditional age identity?
Hodkinson
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Who studied how the workplace socialisers middle-aged people in traditional age identities?
Willis/Mac an Ghaill
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How did Brannan find the family socialise middle-aged people in her traditional age identity?
They are given responsibilities expectations caring for both their children and parents so swing between the two which is referred to as a pivot generation. a face of jewel burden as they care for both children and parents it is a double responsibility suffered by that population
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How did Saunders find that the media socialise is middle-aged people into a traditional age identity?
He studied consumption and suggests that those who satisfy their needs through ownership of various goods are influence heavily by advertising in the media. The media targets middle-aged people as they are the group with the highest disposable income.
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How did Hodkinson find that the peer group socialises middle-aged people in traditional age identities
The middle age can have an association to groups with specific norms and values. Although looks and style are important parts of subculture is a primary feature means being a part of something with a sense of belonging that continues at middle age. He studied goths and argued that friendship groups develop around being a Goth and can result in socialise that are so intertwined they feel very odd to leave it.
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How did Willis find the workplace socialise as mid aged people into traditional age identities?
The workplace may become a dominant source of identity. Willis was interested in the types of jobs that boys went into and how they were related to their father’s jobs. Many of them were in manual jobs and for both boys and fathers their jobs were a key source of identity. They define themselves as manual workers and membership this occupation was the key defining feature of their middle-age identities.
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Who studied how the family socialise elderly people into a traditional age identity?
Parsons
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Who studied how the media socialise his elderly people into a traditional age identity?
Carrigan & Szmigin, Landis
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Who studied how the workplace socialise elderly people in traditional age identities?
Johnson
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Who studied her religion socialise elderly people into traditional age identities?
Voas
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What does disengagement mean?
How people may leave social roles when they get older
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What roles do people disengage from as they get older in society?
Elderly people disengage from their job roles within the workplace and their role within the Home
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How did Parsons find that this family socialise his elderly people into a traditional age identity
Parsons noted that the elderly have less status in society and lose the most important social role within the family. They may be isolated from their children who start to focus more on marriage partners. Parsons refers to the disengagement theory when elderly people disengage with their previous roles and harvest the fruits of their labour to enjoy recreational activities.
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How did Carrigan & Szmigins find that the media socialise as elderly people into a traditional age identity?
Elderly people are less likely to be pulled portrayed in advertisements than younger people. Depictions of older people feature caricature and negative images such as them being being smelly and continent, despite them now being fit and active
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How did Sontag find that the media socialise elderly people in a traditional age identity
He suggested that there is a double standard of aging, especially in television whereby women are required to be youthful throughout their media careers and men are not
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How did Landis find that the media socialise is elderly people into a traditional age identity?
The media represents older people in a number of stereotypical ways. They were depicted as one dimensional and described in the following ways grumpy old man, feisty old woman, depressed or lonely, mentally deficient, sickly old person, having wisdom, busy body, and having a second childhood.
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How did Johnson find that the workplace socialise is elderly people into a traditional age identity?
Ageism occurs in the workplace in the UK and it is institutionalised and embedded in practices and society. Ageism in the workplace is expressed through the stereotypical assumptions about a persons competency to do a job in relation to their age. Older people find it much more difficult to get a job as they get older and face stereotypes in the workplace.
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What is ageism?
Discrimination based on age, especially prejudice against elderly
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What is institutionalise ageism?
Practices and policies ingrained in an institution to disadvantage people on the basis of age
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How did Voas find that religion? Socialise is elderly people into a traditional age identity?
Older people are much more like themselves because of the generational effect (they were brought up in a much more religious era and their socialisation into values was more intense) and the age(people became more spiritual the closer they got to death)
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Who studied how the prayer group socialise people into changing age identities?
Clarke & Warren
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Who studied how the media are hoping to change age identity?
Featherstone and Hepworth
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Who studied how age identities are changing as the old are being acknowledged as an important consumer group?
Featherstone and Hepworth & Blaikie
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What are post-modernist views on changing age identity?
They look at trends such as people living and working for longer anti-ageing products and procedures and the extension of youth and childhood to show how age is fluid and becoming less significant today
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How did Clarke and Warren for that socialising in the peer groups is causing age identities to change
They suggest the old-age may be a time to make new friends and engage in new interests. Inclusion such activities may define an old age identity. Active aging is when they are provided in new opportunities and are engaged in life.
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What is de-differentiation?
The process by which the differences between different stages of the life course become less clear
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What is deinstitutionalisation?
The process by which the institutions of society become less closely associated with maintaining different phases of the life course
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How did Blaikie find that age identities are changing as the elderly being acknowledged as an important consumer group?
Attitude to retirement have changed and stereotypes of old age of broken down. This is partly due to consume a culture as older people are growing in wealth. They are seen as a valuable group to advertise towards. The stereotypes of aging have also been challenged by a number of celebrities. People are no longer restrictedby their age but it’s too soon to talk at the end of old age as a class gender and ethnic division still shake the experience of old age.
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What is the definition of sexuality
An individuals preference in sexual partners. Some would suggest that your sexuality can be fluid and change over time.
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Who studied her sexual identity remains traditional as heterosexuality is the norm and homosexuality is excluded
Weeks and Plummer
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Who studied how peer groups reinforce traditional heterosexual identity?
Mac an Ghaill
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Who studied how women’s sexuality has been oppressed in patriarchal society?
Rich
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What can be provided as evidence that laws are becoming more inclusive of different sexual identities?
The equality act 2010
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Who studied how peers are becoming more inclusive of different sexual identities?
McCormack
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Who studied how women’s sexuality is becoming less depressed?
Jackson
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How does the air quality act show that laws around sexuality are changing
Sex and sexual orientation are protected characteristics It is illegal to harass, discriminate or victimise people based on these characteristics
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What did Jackson find about how women’s sexuality is becoming less oppressed
Ladettes acted hard, smoked and drunk underage Girls were openly discussing their sexuality amongst peers
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He studied our national identity is traditional because people in a country act as part of an imagined community
Anderson
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He studied for the education system socialise people into a traditional national identity
Phillips et al
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Who studied how British people are socialised into a common national identity through multiple different aspects in their life?
Schuden
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What did Anderson find about how national identity is traditional?
A nation is an imagined community, members of a nation will never meet most of their fellow members and so national identity is socially constructed through symbols such as the flag anthem and rituals
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What did Phillips et al find about having an education system socialise people into a traditional national identity
The national curriculum supports the ideology of nationalism and his histories are a key factor of creating national identity The country the history is taught in is the country that the history revolves around
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What did Schuden find about how British people socialised and common national identity
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What is the definition of a disability?
A physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term effect from a persons ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities
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What is the definition of an impairment?
A physical or mental abnormality/condition
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Who studied help people with the disability face challenges and society that mean they develop a victim mentality?
Shakespeare
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Who studied her disability is a negative identity as it is reinforced by the public awkward treatment
Ridley
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Who studied how disability is a negative identity because of the lack of positive representation in the media?
Barnes
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What did Shakespeare find about those with disabilities developing a victim mentality?
People develop a victim mentality because they can use it as a reason for their failure There’s a lack of positive role models in public life and abled body society reacts with petty avoidance and awkwardness Disabled people often isolated from each other
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What did Barnes find about how disability is a negative identity because of the lack of positive representation?
The media represents disability as oppressive and negative. They are really presented as people with their own identities.
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Who studied how disability is becoming more normalised
Murugami
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What can be shown as evidence for disability becoming more included
The equality act 2010
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What did Murugami find about how disability is becoming more normalised
Disabled people have the ability to construct a self-identity and accept their impairment Their disability is just one of their many characteristics Very few people are able bodied throughout their whole life