Unit 2: Culture, Conformity and Nonconformity (Terms) Flashcards
Social Control
Ways in which member of society are made to conform to norms and values.
Rewards
A positive sanction so that someone is praised or is better off.
Sanctions
Ways of rewarding or punishing acceptable or unacceptable behaviours,
Sub-culture
A group within a larger culture that has its own distinctive norms and values.
Youth sub-culture
A sub-culture of adolescents or young adults that is usually distinguishable by their style, dress, and musical preference.
Value consensus
General agreement across a society on a set of values.
Social conformity
Acting in accordance with norms and social expectations.
Informal social control
Ways of controlling behaviour imposed by people without a formal role to do so.
Formal social control
Social control imposed by a person or organisation that has the authority to implement rules or laws.
Peer groups
People of the same status.
Ostracism
Excluding someone from the community or group.
Peer pressure
The influence that a peer group has to force or persuade its members to conform.
Agencies of socialisation
Insitutions in which people are socialised.
Primary socialisation
The first and most important period of socialisation in which the individuals learns the basic norms of behaviour.
Hidden curricculum
What pupils learn in schools apart from the content of lesson, taught through the way the school is run.
