Socialisation
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- Socialisation
- Perspectives on socialisation
- Socialisation is the process by which individuals become self-aware and learn the culture of their society.
- Functionalism
- Parsons saw socialisation as vital to the process by which a value consensus is produced in society.
- Parsons argued the family is the most important agency of primary socialisation as taking place primarily through identification with adults.
- Parsons saw schooling as an important agency of secondary socialisation, as it acts as the bridge between the home and society at large.
- Parsons saw socialisation as vital to the process by which a value consensus is produced in society.
- Marxism
- Tends to agree that socialisation can be an effective way of producing conformity, but they disagree that this benefits society as a whole.
- Ideological conditioning
- Cooper was the family as a device that conditions children to accept their own exploitation.
- The family lays down behaviour patterns in which people submit to those in authority. Children learn to obey employers in later life.
- Bowles and Gintis (1976) - Hidden Curriculum - socialised children to be subservient and obedient, to be motivated by external rewards and to see inequality in society as legitimate.
- The family lays down behaviour patterns in which people submit to those in authority. Children learn to obey employers in later life.
- Cooper was the family as a device that conditions children to accept their own exploitation.
- Neo-marxism
- Socialisation is not as effective as some assume.
- Involves the transmission of cultural capital - cultural resources that can be used to acquire other sorts of capital, like money.
- Symbolic interactionism
- Socialisation agents, like parents and teachers
- They have responsibilities for preparing children for membership of society.
- Socialisation agents, like parents and teachers
- Feminism
- Ann Oakley (1974) - Distinct gender roles for men and women that derive from culture rather than from biology
- Gender roles vary from society to society but in all societies they tend to maintain male dominance and female subservience.
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- Gender roles vary from society to society but in all societies they tend to maintain male dominance and female subservience.
- Ann Oakley (1974) - Distinct gender roles for men and women that derive from culture rather than from biology
- Perspectives on socialisation
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