key prospects

• social structure


  relationships and parts of society
• informal control


  school, family, peers
• formal control


  government agencies, police, laws
• social issue


  problems in society like poverty
• identity


  2 way process. key features about someone
• norms and values


  n-unspoken rules. v-things that are important
• culture

  a way of life for a particular group in society, they have their own norms and values
• subculture

  a smaller group within a culture with their own norms and values
• primary socialisation


  family
• secondary socialisation

  school, workplace
• gender socialisation


  boy/girl, how they are both treated in society
• status


  a persons position in society
• ascribed status


  what you're born into
• achieved status


  what you have earned
• cultural capital (BOURDIEU)


  bourgeoisie students achieve in education due to this. bourdieu argues cultural and material factors contribute to educational achievement and are not separate
• cultural capital includes?


  includes knowledge, values, attitudes, languages and abilities of middle class. activities-museums, documentaries, academic, educational info, cultural knowledged
• economic capital


  financing private schools, extra tuitions, selection by mortgage. mc-can afford housing by schools that are high up the league table. wc-cannot