Culture, socialisation and identity

• 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)