Sociology - Ben Stainthorpe

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Primary socialisation

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Primary socialisation (or primary socialization) in sociology is the acceptance and learning of a set of norms and values established through the process of socialisation in early life. Typically this is initiated by the family

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Secondary Socialisation

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Secondary socialization refers to the process of learning what is the appropriate behavior as a member of a smaller group within the larger society. Basically, it is the behavioral patterns reinforced by socializing agents of society. Secondary socialization takes place outside the home. It is where children and adults learn how to act in a way that is appropriate for the situations they are in.Schools require very different behavior from the home, and Children must act according to new rules.

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Role Models

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A person whose behavior, example, or success is or can be emulated by others, especially by younger people.

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Canalisation

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Parental attempts to make sure children play with gender appropriate toys

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Manipulation

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Parents will encourage gender appropriate behaviour and disapprove of gender inappropriate behaviour

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Resocialization

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Resocialization is defined as radically changing a person's personality by carefully controlling the environment

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Peer group

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A peer group is both a social group and a primary group of people who have similar interests (homophily), age, background, and social status

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Feral child

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A feral child is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, and has little or no experience of human care, of loving or social behavior, or, crucially, of human language.

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Culture

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The ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society

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Subculture

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A subculture is a culture within a broader mainstream culture, with its own separate values, practices, and beliefs

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Multicultural

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Relating to or containing several cultural or ethnic groups within a society

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Socially constructed

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A social construction is any phenomenon constructed by participants in a particular culture or society, existing because people agree to behave as if it exists or follow certain conventional rules

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Nature

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The belief humans are the way the are naturally due to instincts

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Nurture

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The belief that humans the way they are due to nutureing such as gender socialisation

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Formal Social Control

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External sanctions enforced by government to prevent the establishment of chaos in society

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Informal Social Control

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Internalisation of norms and values by a process known as socialization, which is defined as the process by which an individual, born with behavioral potentialities of enormously wide range, is led to develop actual behavior which is confined to the narrower range of what is acceptable for him by the group standards.

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Gender

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The state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones)

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Sex

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Either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and most other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions.