Primary - through family; learn identity, imitate gender roles, sanctions used to teach norms
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what can happen if miss out on primary socialisation?
feral children
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2nd process of socialisation?
Secondary - through agencies; lifelong process
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agency 1 and key studies
Peers - socially acceptable behaviour; hierarchy; become more important than family. JUDITH HARRIS - peers don't push, they pull. SEWELL - cultural comfort zones
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agency 2 and key study
Media - stereotypes; consumerism. JOCK YOUNG - bulimic society, binge on everything, worship material things, creates criminality in deprived youths.
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agency 3 and key study
Education - prepare for workplace; formal curriculum; hidden curriculum. BOWLES + GINTIS - giant myth making machine makes kids blindly obedient and believe that everything is fair
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NATURE - supporting study
twin studies - jim twins - grew up separately, practically living same life, genes are only explanation
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NUTURE - supporting studies
experiment - bruce reimer - born as boy but grew up as girl through socialising into female gender role. Mead - cross cultural study of chambri tribe - 2 sexes have same genes, so shows that gender is learnt, not innate.
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Social control - who by and why?
the agencies are mechanisms of social control; they regulate our behaviour
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1st type of control?
Formal - institutions, laws broken, obvious
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2nd type of control?
Informal - sanctions, subtle
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gender and control
women controlled - glass ceiling, cover up in religions, longer sentences for crimes against gender roles; chivalry thesis
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what can happen if miss out on primary socialisation?
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