Definitions

• Culture

  learnt & shared way of life of a group of people/society
• Norms 


  socially expected behaviours
• Status

  position in social hierarchy - achieved / ascribed
• Roles

  norms linked to status
• Values

  shared, what is important in culture
• Identity 


  how yourself / other people view yourself
• Primary socialisation

  early stages, within the family, learn basic skills and norms
• Secondary socialisation

  at school / wider societ, transmitting norms and values needed for society
• Structural view 


  us as shaped by society
• Social action view 


  having free will and choice
• Subculture 


  culture within a culture