Acquiring Culture Through Socialisation

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Education
An agent of secondary socialisation that uses the hidden curriculum and formal curriculum to socialise children.
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Peer Groups
An agent of secondary socialisation that creates independence from the family, but can also cause peer pressure.
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Secondary Socialisation
The child learns from agents of socialisation like school, mass media, friendship groups and religion.
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Primary Socialisation
The child learns from the immediate family in the home.
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Imitation
When a child learns social skills by watching their parents.
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Sanctions
When a child is punished for bad behaviour and rewarded for good behaviour.
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Role Models
The people that children look up to and copy, e.g. daughter plays with domestic toys so she can be like mum.
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Family Socialisation
Parents deliberately socialising their child to be a functioning member of society.
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Tertiary Socialisation
Takes place in adulthood when they have to adapt to new situations, e.g. parenthood, new job, sudden illness.
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Formal Socialisation
Process where people are deliberately manipulated to follow certain rules by education.
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Informal Socialisation
Process where people learn to fit in through imitation.
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Copycat Behaviour
The media uses this to socialise people into certain behaviours and styles.
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Informal Control
Unwritten rules like norms, morals and values.
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Formal Control
Concrete rules in society, e.g. laws.
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An agent of secondary socialisation that creates independence from the family, but can also cause peer pressure.

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Peer Groups

Card 3

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The child learns from agents of socialisation like school, mass media, friendship groups and religion.

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Card 4

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The child learns from the immediate family in the home.

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Card 5

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When a child learns social skills by watching their parents.

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