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Socialisation:Peer Groups
- Ways of being socialised by peer groups
- Formed by people roughly the same age & social position
- learn social norms and experiment with social roles
- learn social norms and experiment with social roles
- Parents worry about peer groups encouraging drugs/ alcohol
- Worry about popularity
- Groups perform valuable functions for their members
- Formed by people roughly the same age & social position
- Peer Power: ADLER AND
ADLER
- Study of white middle class children in usa
- showed the importance to pre adolence teens
- Popularity :) Social isolation :(
- Shift and change , Hierarchy , cliques have higher prestige some members
have greater power
- higher status = role models
- Cliques excersise power by accepting some & excluding others
- Study of white middle class children in usa
- HEY
- Peers control each other using informal sanctions
- written in the context of feminist
sociolgy and concerns of
ethnographic study of girls in 2
london schools
- excluded and insulted peers
- Eg calling working class slags & controlling cliques
- Peers control each other using informal sanctions
- Renold
- Strong force in children
- primary aged boys hide academic success to avoid teasing
- ' cool boy' incorpratated being good at sport and bad in class
- Sewell
- backed this up in study of black boys underachivement
- argues that black working class boys in inner cities focus on media stars who
promote consumerism and deviance
- backed this up in study of black boys underachivement
- Strong force in children
- JACKSON
- Lads and ladettes control each others behaviour by encouraging
rebellion rewards with popularity
- Pupils who conformed to rules were ignored ( informal sanctions)
- Lads and ladettes control each others behaviour by encouraging
rebellion rewards with popularity
- EVALUATION
- studies only focus on children/ teenagers
- Time when peers most important
- Increasing time with friends and shift from family
- Through socialising with same age develop sense of identity / independence
- Preparation for adulthood
- However process being socialised by peers is very
subtle and informal hard to see effects
- studies only focus on children/ teenagers
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