Theroies on socialisation
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- Theories on socialisation
- Functionalism
- Socialisation has positive effects on members of society
- This is an essential process
- PARSONS
- Argues that socialisation is needed for society to survive, as it teaches us about appropriate behaviours
- The formal and informal social control that socialisation offers us is needed for society to survive, as it reaffirms the idea of right and wrong
- It helps us to recognise the shared culture of society and be a functional member of our meritocracy
- Socialisation has positive effects on members of society
- Marxism
- Socialisation is a negative process
- It is simply ideological conditioning- a device which ensures that children will accept that children will accept inequality in later life
- This form of social control is used by capitalism to keep the working class in their place through harsh punishments and demonization
- BOURDIEU
- Argues that socialisation involves the transmission of cultural capital from one generation to another
- This ensures that inequality is maintained as middle class families have lots of cultural capital and the working class have little
- Argues that socialisation involves the transmission of cultural capital from one generation to another
- Socialisation is a negative process
- Feminsm
- The process of socialisation is negative
- Socialisation contributes to gender inequality and reinforces gender divisions and gender stereotypes
- Socialisation, both primary and secondary, passes on patriarchal ideology to children
- This is reinforced throughout society through the formal and informal agencies of social control
- Interactionism
- Socialisation is and isn't positive
- The agencies of socialisation have the responsibility of preparing children for adult society, this is POSITIVE
- Socialisation involves considerable conflict but this is to be expected, as we are learning about what our society will accept and will not accept, this is POSITIVE
- Individuals are harmed by surveillance, as this may change behaviour due to fear of sanctions and hinder out development as individuals
- Functionalism
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