Key concepts

• Socialization - the process of learning the norms and values of a society through interactions with others.
• Socialization:

  Primary - from family, early childhood

  Secondary - school , work , church
• Media and cultural transmission - through mass media, sharing culture eg food
• Agencies of socialization - school , work , religion , peer groups, extra curricular activities

  formal and informal
• Culture

  beliefs, norms, values , traditions of a particular society
• Role of sanctions - formal and informal

  consequences to behavior, good or bad

  F = written IF = unwritten
• Nature vs Nurture -

  nature - born this way

  nurture - taught / socialized this way
• Ethnic group - people who share the same common in history, customs and their identity, also religion and languages
• canalisation - the channeling of children towards toys and activities seen as normal for their sex, encouraging girls to be feminine and boys masculine
• Secularization - people being less religious
• • New right
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This is a set of political views associated with extreme conservatism and the politics of Margaret Thatcher who was elected Prime Minister in 1979. It emphasised traditional
• • Methodology
Refers to the methods that sociologists use to form their conclusions. The most common methods are: questionnaires, interviews and observations
• • Marxism

  • This is a form of sociology based on the idea that rich people dominate poorer people. They are able to do it in such a way that poor people don't recognise what is happening to them
• • Differentiation
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The term used to describe the way that some people and some social groups are made different from others. The most common forms of differentiation are on the basis of social class, age, gender an ethnicity
• social construct - ideas constructed or made by society