key concepts

• a culture is a shared way of living
• a norm is an unwritten rule
• a relative concept is a concept that changes from place or time
• values are the core beliefs and ideas about how we should live our lives
• cage stands for class age gender and ethnicity
• status is the level of importance your role has in society
• an achieved status is when someone has worked for their role
• an ascribed status is a role you've been born into
• socialisation is the process through which we learn the norms of our society
• primary socialisation is the socialisation we get during our younger years
• secondary socialisation is all the socialising outside your house eg school