Culture and socialisation flashcards

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A2 Sociology Flashcards on Culture and socialisation flashcards, created by Sophie Hankin on 27/04/2017.
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The Hamar Tribe (Culture) Has a culture rich in ceremony and ritual. To reach adulthood males must perform a ceremony and females are whipped.
Barker (Culture) A multicultural society celebrates differences. (Teaching many faiths and celebrating ethnically diverse festivals.)
Margaret Mead (Norms) Found very different gender roles in tribes. In Arapesh tribe both genders were gentle and cooperative.
Parsons (Family) Family is a personality factory and child is a blank slate.
Cooper (Family) Marxist. Family is an ideological conditioning device to socialise children to accept their exploitation.
Ann Oakley (Family) Gender socialisation; Canalisation, manipulation, verbal appellation, gender codes
Skelton & Francis (Peer group) Play was very gendered with boys dominating the space.
Sue Lees (Peer group) Double standards applied to boys and girls sexual behaviour.
Harris (Peer group) Peer group can be more influential than family in shaping identities.
Tony Sewell (Peer group) 'Cultural comfort zones' describe how we socialise with people similar to us.
Bowles and Gintis (Education) Marxist Education system was a giant 'myth making machine' which brainwashed children into obedience and an unquestioning attitude.
Parsons (Education) The main function of education is to act as a social bridge between family and wider society.
Mulvey (Media) Concept of 'male gaze' to describe how cameras eye up women encouraging viewers to assess their bodies.
Jock Young (Media) Media is partly responsible for criminality as it has created a bulimic society.
Modood and Berthoud (Religion) More Pakistani and Bangladeshi young people saw religion as important than whites.
Durkheim (Religion) Main function of religion is to socialise members into value consensus. For example 10 commandments.
Waddington (Workplace) Canteen culture refers to the set of norms and values that people who work in a particular setting have to accept. (Racist police)
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