Agents of Socialisation - Ethnicity
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- Ethnicity - Agents of Socialisation
- Family
- Sociologists and their findings
- Ghuman 1999, found some primary practices in Asian families
- Taught values of obedience, loyalty, community and repect for elders
- Arranged marriage through parents is generally accepted by young people
- Respect for religion
- Mother toingue seen as crucial in maintaining ethnic links
- Obligation to family and extended kin
- Reynolds 2004, African-Carribean life in UK
- Close family ties between those who live outside the UK
- Mutual and Economic support regardless of where family live
- Compensation of marginalisation and exclusion of British Society
- Ghuman 1999, found some primary practices in Asian families
- May teach children about cultural background or values
- Speak different languages to ethnic majority
- May have different identities at home and outside of the home
- Sociologists and their findings
- Peers
- Sociologists and their findings
- Sewell, young black boys
- Dominantant white mainstream culture
- Lower expectation for them to perform well at school
- Anxious about how they are percieved by peers due to one-parent families
- Adopt and alternative subculture in response to marginalisation
- Sewell, young black boys
- Cultural Comfort Zone
- Cultural Areas od School
- Sociologists and their findings
- Religion
- Sociologists and their findings
- Jacobson
- Young Pakistanis more likely to see religion as more important than Nationality
- Jacobson
- Faith schools promote identity underpinned by religion
- 1% faith schools are non-christian
- Fears that faith schools will promote intolerant and narrow values
- Sociologists and their findings
- Education
- Sociologists and their findings
- Sewell
- 'Hustling' or masculinity are more important than education for African-Carribean boys
- Teachers more likely to treat Africn-Carribean boys harshly due to lower expectations
- Black boys more likely to be excluded at school
- Sewell
- Indian/Chinese children have high acedemic success as part of identity
- Ethnicity undermined by aspects of the hidden curriculum
- Black/Asian culture limited to certain time periods (Black History Month)
- Sociologists and their findings
- Media
- Sociologists and their findings
- Van Dijk
- Many news reports are negative
- Media misrepresents cultual practices/ beliefs
- Best and Kneller
- Rap and Hip-Hop provide a voice for black identitiy rather than in mainstream news
- Music can communicate ander over marginalisation, racism, police harrasment and socioeconomic deprivation
- Parker and Song
- Social media used to preserve cultural minority
- Identity and culture are influnenced by social media outlets
- Van Dijk
- Coverage of ethnic minorities are usually negative
- Prejudices may develop
- Ethnic minorities may get low self esteem
- Sociologists and their findings
- Workplace
- Sociologists and their findings
- Hudson et al
- Those in low payed jobs are discriminated against, stop them from improving work condition
- Bullying and harrasment from white co workworkers and managememt team
- Rao and Stevenson
- Ethnic minorities felt they had to work harder and longer for same recognition
- Hudson et al
- Some ethnic minorities can be found in high status/earning jobs
- Disproportonate number are in low-skilled, minimum wage work
- Sociologists and their findings
- Family
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