Family
- Created by: Rebekah Allanah
- Created on: 08-05-13 12:12
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- Family
- Oakley
- Nuclear family provides gender socialisation
- Parents use canalisation (use of toys to teach gender). For example trucks for boys and dolls for girls
- No longer as many nuclear families meaning the research is outdated
- Gender socialisation can also occur through other agencies such as media and school
- Nuclear family provides gender socialisation
- Parsons
- Nuclear families are the best way to provide socialisation
- Provides a breadwinner
- Out dated
- Many government benefits for support
- Most women now work
- Much more variety in the types of family, e.g. same sex or single parent
- Out dated
- Provides gender socialisation
- Provides a breadwinner
- Nuclear families are the best way to provide socialisation
- Burnstein
- Working class families are more likely to be taught the restricted code whereas middle class families are taught the elaborate code
- This then gives middle class students an advantage as they will have cultural capital because they will find it easier to understand the elaborate code used by teachers.
- This also means that the working class suffer from cultural deprivation
- Alan Sugar - Was working class and is now very rich
- Labeling - teachers assume that middle class children are smarter. Statistics support that middle class students do better than working class
- Media can influence how you speak along with where you live
- This also means that the working class suffer from cultural deprivation
- This then gives middle class students an advantage as they will have cultural capital because they will find it easier to understand the elaborate code used by teachers.
- Working class families are more likely to be taught the restricted code whereas middle class families are taught the elaborate code
- Feral Children
- Proof that family is an important aspect of socialisation as they lack the primary socialisation that the family provides
- Cases of feral children are very rare and therefore cannot be generalised to a wider population
- Criticism
- Postmodernist
- Increase in media, technology and leisure means that you can completely create your own identity
- Other agencies may be more important or influential in the socialisation process
- Postmodernist
- Key
- Theory
- Strength
- Criticism
- Oakley
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