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What/Who did Renolds study? |
Primary school boys |
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What were Renolds conclusions? |
Peer groups are a strong force in enforcing informal social control. Sometimes the acceptance of one agent is prioritized over another. |
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What were Renolds findings? |
Primary school boys would hide their academic success in order to avoid teasing from peers and fit into the ideal identity of a boy who was good at sport but didn't try nearly as hard in the classroom. |
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What/Who did Skelton study in 'Schooling for boys'? |
A primary school in a deprived area with a notorious reputation for crime in the north east. |
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What were Skeltons findings? |
-The teachers regarded many of the local parents as 'inadequate' so set the school the task of socialising the children properly. -The school attempted to maintain social control through firm measures creating a sort of fortress against violence and theft. -The teachers adopted masculine styles like intimidatory body language to show whos boss. |
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What were Skeltons conclusions? |
-Shows how educationalists may see their job as re-socializing children properly. -How this kind of control strategies were in many ways ironically a reflection of the tough' values that were prized in the local community. |
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What does Watson suggest? |
The Muslim hijab is not a symbol of oppression but freedom. Muslim women choose to wear it to give the aces to public buildings and education. |
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1)What does the Qu'ran say? 2)How do Islamic feminists and other writers comment on this? 3)What does Burchill argue? |
1)Women should exercise religious modesty or hijab because their attractiveness might lead men astray 2)This has been misinterpreted by men to mean that women must cover their bodies and faces in the presence of men who are not relatives,with the patriarch motive of controlling women 3)writing in the guardian: 'such women carry with them a mobile prison' |
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What does Helen Watson argue? [POSSIBLE CRITICISM] [RELIGION] |
The veil is not a symbol of oppression but freedom. Muslim women choose to wear it to give them access to public buildings and education. |
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What does Gannon argue? |
Older women are discriminated against in terms of their age and their gender. She believes women's status is reduced after the menopause reflecting society's tendency to see women in terms of their sexuality and child bearing usefulness. |
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What did the McPherson report conclude? |
That the police are institutionally racist. (Young black men are 7 times more likely to be stopped ans searched than their white counterparts.) |
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What/Who did Goffman study? |
Goffman studied what he called TOTAL INSTITUTIONS, or such as prisons,psychiatric hospitals,army barracks ,monasteries, and boarding schools. |
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What happend in total institutions (Goffman)? |
-All areas of life are controlled,and scheduled (one activity leads to the next) -Clothing and personal items are removed and generic uniform is given to them. -A generic haircut and prison or patient number is intended to strip away any sense of identity. |
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What is the result of people spending time in these 'total institutions' (Goffman)? |
-They become institutionalized and loose ability to deal with life on the outside. -Individuals are mortified (sense of self is stripped away and denied) -Identification of ones own norms and values is slowly stripped away because of lack of control over ones own movements, and permission needed for basic things. |
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What is the definition of social control? |
The methods employed to ensure that people comply with society's rules and regulations. It is a way of checking that deviance is kept to a minimum. |
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1)What is formal social control? 2)What is informal social control? |
1)Certain institutions like the police,the law and legal system,courts, the government and the military have a specific responsibility to control us. These institutions directly and explicitly control the behaviour of the population -its obvious people are aware its happening. 2)Happens all the time as people control our behaviour through positive and negative sanctions. |
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What are examples of institutions use of formal social control? |
EDUCATION- Legal requirements in terms of attendance and behaviour codes WORKPLACE- Official disciplinary procedures and codes of conduct RELIGION- Sanctions imposed by a religious organisation such as expulsion and public condemnation may operate o formally control behaviour. |
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What are examples of institutions use of informal social control? |
PEER GROUP- Excluding a person from a peer group PARENTS- disappointed reactions from parents and carers WORK- Being passed over for promotion MEDIA- Celebrities being criticised in magazines |
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Criticisms of informal social control by parents? |
McRobbie and Garber demonstrate that parents/carers do not always treat boys and girls the same, which feminists suggest perpetuates patriarchal ideas. |
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Example of informal social control by parents? |
McRobbie and Garber’s concept of the bedroom culture, that informal social control can be different for boys and girls as the social control of girls seems to be much stricter than that of boys. The research by Furedi demonstrates that social control of children has become much more of a concern for parents, even sending them into a state of paranoia
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What are examples of informal social control in the media? |
Feminists are often concerned that themedia can represent stereotypical images of girls and women which hold themback. Media images in the 50s, 60s and70s were dominated with women taking on domestic roles as mothers and housewives. For feminists, this is an example of patriarchy (domination of women by men)as the behaviour of women is controlled by men. Women who step outside these stereotypical gender roles are judged andseen to be deviant (deviates from social norms). Even more worrying for feminists is the ideathat such ideas are so ingrained that women themselves may well be the first tojudge and police each other’s behaviour. This demonstrates the power of themedia when informally controlling women’s behaviour. |
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Criticisms of Renold? |
While this study shows boys hiding academic success, other studies in private schools and grammar schools have found much more competition between boys to do well and to be seen as bright.
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glass ceiling? |
Feminists argue that theworkplace offers only limited role models for women in terms of a glass ceiling. This is an invisible barrier which seems to stopwomen reaching the top jobs, yet ironically they can see them and may watchtheir male counterpart rise through the ranks. Women may be socialised to expect less fromtheir job as they do not see people like them at the top of the work structure |
