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11 Cards in this Set
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Ascribed status |
Status you are born with, e.g. gender or royal status |
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Achieved status |
e.g. successful businessman Sir Alan Sugar. |
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Labelling theory |
People are given a label and are treated as if it is true. If the label is accepted and acted upon it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. |
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Manipulation |
Children are encouraged or discouraged to behave in certain ways through praise and punishment |
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Canalisation |
Parents direct children’s interests into things that they think are good for them, e.g. they may read to them or take them to sports activities. They learn the norms for their family or gender. |
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Language |
Adults speak to boys and girls in different ways to teach them their roles, e.g.’ boys don’t cry’ teaches boys to be tough. |
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Social activities |
Children learn to play with other children at home, in playgroup and at nursery by sharing and taking turns. Girls may be encouraged to do domestic tasks in the kitchen whilst boys are sent out to play and be more competitive, e.g. in sport |
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Modelling |
Children imitate their parents and act as they do. Adults become role models for children who copy them. |
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Toys and games |
Are an important part of socialisation. Children are given gendered objects (toys intended for a particular sex) to play with, e.g. guns for boys. |
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Agencies of secondary socialisation |
Any institution that shapes behaviour, e.g. school, work, media. Example: at school we learn expected behaviours from codes of conduct and are punished if we break these. |
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A feral child |
An unsocialised child |
