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
      • 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
    • 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
      • Cultural Comfort Zone
      • Cultural Areas od School
    • Religion
      • Sociologists and their findings
        • Jacobson
          • Young Pakistanis more likely to see religion as more important than Nationality
      • Faith schools promote identity underpinned by religion
      • 1% faith schools are non-christian
      • Fears that faith schools will promote intolerant and narrow values
    • 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
      • 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)
    • 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
      • Coverage of ethnic minorities are usually negative
      • Prejudices may develop
      • Ethnic minorities may get low self esteem
    • 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
      • Some ethnic minorities can be found in high status/earning jobs
      • Disproportonate number are in low-skilled, minimum wage work

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