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Introduction to sociology (Culture and Identity)
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- 1What do sociologist do? (Research)1) Hypothesis- A prediction based on current knowledge
2) Data-Collect Information
3) Analyse- Sociologists examine the data
4) Conclusion- They then make and explanation for human behaviour - 2How do sociologists research help people in society?Their findings and solutions are used in Government to make new laws and social policies.
- 3What is the Nature Vs. Nurture Debate?NURTURE
*Our human nature is influenced by our social environment.
*People learn to think and act in certain ways
NATURE
*We have natural reflexes such as blinking as well as our biological needs - 4What are the 6 agencies of socialisation?*Family
*Work
*Media
*Education
*Peer Groups/Friends
*Religion - 5Family as an agencies of socialisationSeen as the main agency of primary socialisation as children are taught the basic norms and values.
- 6Education as an agencies of socialisationPupils learn about the society they live in and the norms and values they are expected to conform to as adults
- 7Peer Groups as an agencies of socialisationA desire for approval and acceptance by others provides a powerful socialising influence.
- 8Work as an agencies of socialisationInvolves learning norms and values of a wider society and conforming to the social rules of governing work
- 9Media as an agencies of socialisationA source of information, ideas, Norms and values and shares images and attitudes that can influences people
- 10Religion as an agencies of socialisationInvolves beliefs that influence peoples ideas about right and wrong behaviour.
- 11What are social roles?Within Society they hold different levels of status, they also include roles within social groups.
Eg. Mum, Dad, Co-worker - 12What are norms and values?Norms
*Expected behaviours or unwritten rules of behaviour in society
Values
*General principles or beliefs
(Part of culture that inform the norms of behaviour we follow) - 13What is culture?The shared norms and values of a society
- 14What is socialisation?Process of being integrated into societies culture
- 15How does socialisation and culture link together?Each society has its own culture. Individuals learn and share within a society/group as they pass down generations
- 16What is a feral Child?If an individual is not socialised into the culture of society they are see as feral
- 17Who was Oxana Malaya? (Case Study)After being abandoned by her family, dogs took her in and raised her as a dog to save her from dying
- 18Who is Genie? (Feral Child Case Study)Her father kept her limited to a small room and had no contact with anyone else and was badly mistreated. She passed the age of socialisation and could not learn fully.
- 19What is ascribed status?The status you are born with and remains throughout life and affects who you can marry and what you can do (closed society)
- 20What is achieved status?The status you gain through talent, hard work, effort or luck.
(Able to move up or down the stratification system) - 21What is Primary Socialisation?The internalisation of norms and values that take place in the early years of life
- 22What is secondary socialisation?The internalisation of norms and values that take place beyond the family and continues throughout education.
- 23what is the stratification system?How society is divided up into layers which are usually hierarchically ordered.
- 24Struturalists in societyTry to understand society and human behaviour by studying the structures which organise society. They can be institutions within society including groups which people belong to.
- 25Sturctural theoriesThey are deterministic, humans lack freedom. they are seen as a product of society. This is seen within functionalism, Marxism and feminism
- 26Interpretivists in societyHumans have free will and that individuals create their own social worlds. They attack their own meanings to events and take a micro approach based upon society through interaction.
- 27Interpretivists approachThey reject a scientific approach to understanding society and use interviews and observations. They attempt to uncover individual feelings and emotions.
- 28What is consensus?See agreement or consensus as the basis of social life. Society would collapse without it as it provides the basis for cooperation and socail unity (shared values) if not it would be replaced with conflict and division
- 29What is conflict?Main characterist of society. It means there are basic conflicts of interests with some groups gaining at the expense of others.
- 30How does economic power effect conflict?Some groups are more powerful than others. Norms and Values are not freely agreed by everyone but are imposed on the weaker sections of society.
- 31What is coercion?An agreement based on force
- 32What is exploitation?One group gaining at the expense of others.
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