Peer groups
- Created by: rooodboii_001
- Created on: 10-05-14 14:38
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- Peer groups - secondary socialisation
- PG socialisation
- Different activities - learn rules of games/sports through peers (gender roles)
- Peer group pressure - imitate group behaviour; conformity; failure to conform = rejection
- Hierarchy - some indivs = higher status; act as role models
- Recognising similarity - similar interests - 'cultural comfort zones'
- Resistance and rebellion - resisting norms and values accepted as part of growing up; (sub cultures)
- Theory
- interactionists - Handel = notes childhood socialisation can be viewed from 2 perspectives 1. the socialisation agents such as parents and teachers or 2. the child who is being socialised - strong influence of peers, in which they socialise each other
- differences in socialisation
- Adults = socialisation of children into comma or core values; long-term adjustment to society; kids follow rules passed down to them - clear sense of hierarchy
- Peer group = diff. values, concerned with more immediate gratification and inclusion w/in the PG; children actively take part in making the rules
- PG socialisation
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