culture and socialisation
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- culture and socialisation
- Functionalists: the individual is a product of society
- Durkheim called the norms and values that hold society together the collective consensus of society
- socitey is made up of many institutions which all have a function that help society to run smoothely
- Marxists believe that the economic system (infrastructure) of a society determined the beliefs and values of the society (superstructure)
- most important force in society is class conflict.
- people are socialised intoculture based on their social class.
- people's identity depends on theirclass position in the capitalist system.
- Interactionists believe that the individuals actions are most important.
- These theories start with the idea that all individuals interpret society around them
- culture comes from people's own ideas of how people interact with each other.
- we all have free will and make our own choices.
- some women choose to work outside the home
- The Labelling theory says that we are given labels which affect our behavior.
- an example of the labelling theory would be the self-fulfilling prophecy of education failure
- a child is labelled as a bad student and actually becomes a bad student
- the labelling theory is a form of interpretivism
- an example of the labelling theory would be the self-fulfilling prophecy of education failure
- Functionalists: the individual is a product of society
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