Culture, socialisation and identity

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    • Status: relative social or professional position; standing
    • Ascribed status: fixed characteristics of an individual such as race, gender.
    • Achieved status is the status that is achieved through the accumulation of wealth, power or hardwork.
    • culture: the way of life alongside artefacts (can be broken down into norms and values
    • norms and values are the beliefs and values that are seen as important and are shared by a group of people
    • primary socialisation: the first stage of socialisation learning basics social skills (norms and values) from ages 0-5 (the family)
    • secondary socialisation: the second stage of socialisation where you learn advanced social skills (your statuses: student, son daughter and roles: to study and be social) from ages 6-16 (education+ the media, religion+ peer groups)
    • Tertiary socialisation: the final stage of socialisation where you learn specific social/job skills at ages 16+ (the workplace/careers and society)
    • Norms: wearing clothes, sleeping in a bed
    • Values: money, hygiene
    • social differentiation: the process by which people are sorted into different social groups based on biological, physiological and cultural characteristics
    • social groups: gender locality age nationality class ethnicity disability sexuality (GLANCEDS)
    • agencies: family (p) education (S) workplace (t) religion (p) media (S)
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