SOCIOLOGY Flashcards
What are the agents of socialization?
Family: Raise you, teach you basic life skills and what is socially acceptable.
Religion: Creates a community, often an extension of your family.
Media: influencers show their perfect lives, we try and do the same, we get/tell news
Workplace: Creates another, more mature, peer group, socialize with more people and are more conscious of what you do
Peer Groups: Form your behaviour, introduce you to new ideas
School: Teaches you, enforces good, acceptable behaviour.
What happens if you are not socialized correctly? Provide multiple examples
A child that has not received the regular support while growing up, often caress for themselves, at times is cared for by animals. They don’t understand social situations, might not be able to talk, +
What are two reasons why people discriminate?
Competition Theory: People distrusting immigrants due to economic competition, blame
immigrants for economic crisis social & health services.
Learned Theory: Behaviours learned through socialization. Views passed on from parents,
peers and media.
Why do people commit crime? Have two theories
Peer Influence: Creates new rules and hierarchy, to be accepted you behave
differently/illegally.
Lack of Opportunity: People commit crimes because they are unable to get the things they
are entitled to. The ultimate goal is to have money and they take alternate routes aka crime.
What is a cult?
A group: Whose beliefs are seen as “strange”, Whose members show unusual or excessive devotion to some person, idea, or thing, Whose leaders use unethical and/or manipulative methods of persuasion and control to advance the goals of the group leaders.
How do cults function?
Members are exploited and manipulated by the group leader through physical/mental stress or harm. The group leader isolates members from the rest of society
What is an example of a cult?
KKK in the US. How did they get members? They have flyers, they had a youth movement, and the ‘decade’. How did they keep members? KKK feeds information solidifying their beliefs that they are in the right. KKK gives vulnerable people a purpose and sets a new perspective. The clan provides their members with a sense of power over others, which can be addictive. The end? They are still going
