Family

• norms 


  unwritten rules of society
• values 


  important ideas and beliefs about how we should live our life
• culture 


  a shared way of life in a society
• identity

  • the idea about who you are and your sense of self how you see yourself and how other see you (CAGE)
• roles 


  the job you play in society, each job has it own norms associated with them
• status 


  the level of importance a person has in society
• Anne Oakley - canalisation

  during primary socialisation parent buy particular toys for their children. this is a type of manipulation that can change children's behaviour. e.g. boys act more aggressive because they play with more aggressive toys like action figures.
• Gendered Subjects 


  school subjects can be considered to be more feminine or masculine.
• types of social control 


  formal, informal
• Formal SC


  agents of society that have jobs to control behaviour. e.g. police, courts, army
• Informal SC


  other agents that control behaviour but through norms and values
• Sanctions 


  Negative - punishments, Positive - rewards, agents of socialisation encourage conformity through sanctions
• formal sanctions 


  given by formal agents of social control when breaking laws.
• informal sanctions


  given by other agents of socialisation when breaking unwritten laws of society
• family


  a group of people related by ties, blood or marriage - this isa traditional meaning, problematic as it ignores family diversity
• marriage 


  legal recognition of two partners in a relationship
• monogamy 


  being married to one person at a time
• cohabitation 


  living together without being married
• polygamy


  being married to more than one person at the same time
• nuclear family 


  the traditional family type, includes a mother, father, and children
• lone parent family 


  a family type with the kids and one parent. this can be due to divorce, death etc.
• bean-pole family

  2 adults and one child
• reconstituted 


  when 2 adults from broken families region to make one new one. e.g. step parents
• extended family 


  a type of family that includes relatives from the same generation. e.g. aunties
• same sex family 


  a family that the parents are of the same sex
• changes in family structures (50 years)

  • marriage rates have declined
  • Remarriage and serial monogamy have become normalised 
  • Same sex marriage legalised in 2013