How do individuals fit into society?

• unsocialised/feral child

  a human child who has been isolated from human contact from a very young and who has very little experiences of human care
• • feral children struggle to fit into society because they don't understand the rules of society so they seem strange
  • cannot walk and may not accept wearing clothes so stand out
  • cannot communicate so cannot make friends
• media and gender socialisation

  • media presents idealised roles of men and women
  • women should be slim/attractive
  • men should be strong/fit
  • in 2015 women only made up 22% of the leading roles in films
• education and gender socialisation

  • despite the national curriculum there are still osme subjects suited to males rather than females
  • gender messages are also passed on through the hidden curriculum
  • 62% of secondary school teachers are female but only 36% are headteachers
  • this reinforces that men should be in leadership roles
• peer groups and gender socialistion

  • male and female peer gorups encourage different behaviours
  • girls may spend their time shopping while boys spend their time playing video games
  • if a person doesn't meet the expectations they may be excluded
• Norms and values have changed

  Leading to better life chances for women
• Sue Sharpe: 'Girl's priorities changed from 'marriage,children,career' to focusing on their career and equality with men'
• average family size has decreased as women choose to have less children so they can focus on their career (average family size is 1.7 children per family)
• number of female directors in the top 100 companies increased by 50% in the last 5 years
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  the number of women in leadership roles is increasing, showing women are making it into industry and government - 30% of MPs are women
• the gender pay gap has almost halved in 20 years - in 2021 the gender pay gap was 14.9%
• evidence for narture theory

  Jim twins - seperated at birth an raised seperately. there were many coincidences in their lives which led to scientists to conclude that nature must be an important part of determining behaviour
• how do we learn our ethnic identity?

  • language spoken,food eaten, religion followed reinforce ethnic identity
  • schools may teach a language of a country
  • children tend to choose peer groups with similar ethnic backgrounds
• evidence for nurture theory

  • feral children
  • differet countries have different norms/values
  • role of women is changing
  • men and women have different roles in different societies
• how do we learn our class identity?

  • middle class and working class families speak differently - middle class have extended voabulary
  • teachers are middle class and are more biased towards middle class children and think working class children are less able
  • soap operas like Eastenders reinforce stereotypical views towards working class e.g. drinking alot of alcohol
• how do we learn our national identity?

  • family can encourage a national identity e.g. encouraging children to support particular sports teams
  • schools teach values that are important to the country e.g. UK children learn British balues
  • media shows national sporting events e.g. England world cup matches