THE PROCESS OF LEARNING & SOCIALISATION - 2.1.2 The Importance of Socialisation

Question 1

Define Primary Socialisation

Answer 1

Learning process that occurs in the family when parents teach their children the language, values, norms and ethics of the culture they live in. They can then grow into citizens and workers who do what the society expects of them

Question 2

Define Conscience

Answer 2

The moral sense of right and wrong that is introduced to children at a young age during socialisation process. Deters deviant behaviour by setting off guilt feelings if the child wants to do wrong

Question 3

Define Imitation

Answer 3

Where children copy the actions of their older role models (specifically parents)

Question 4

Define Role Models

Answer 4

Significant others who are respected by those with a lower status and whose behaviour sets an example to be imitated

Question 5

Define Gender Roles

Answer 5

Social expectations that underpin what is expected of a male and a female in the society they are in

Question 6

Define Feral Children

Answer 6

Children who are interaction derived from other people, as they are abandoned into the wild (in some cases raised by animals) or they are kept in isolation

Question 7

Define Secondary Socialisation

Answer 7

Process of social learning that is an addition to that occurring in the family. These agents include, educational system, religion, workplace and media

Question 8

Define Hidden Curriculum

Answer 8

These are unwritten, unofficial and often unintended lessons, values and attitudes that encourage conformity that children learn at school / classrooms

Question 9

Define Peer Group

Answer 9

Group of people who are about the same age, have the same status and interests

Question 10

Define Cultural Amnesia

Answer 10

Collective loss of memory