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1.
What is the difference between sex and gender?
Answer: Sex is the biology that determines whether one is male or female. Gender refers to the roles and norms that society imposes on us.
2.
What are the 3 forms of social control?
Answer: Physical violence, Economic pressure & Social acceptance
3.
What are the 6 agents of socialisation (agencies of social control)?
Answer: Family, Education, Peer group, Mass Media, Religion, CJS & Work
4.
Which agent is present during the primary socialisation process?
Answer: Family.
5.
According to Functionalists if one is not socialised into culture what are the risks?
Answer: There is a risk of becoming classed of deviant or (worse) feral.
6.
What is social status?
Answer: Position of person in society- sister, teacher, father etc There is a difference between ascribed and achieved social status.
7.
What is social status?
Answer: Position of person in society- sister, teacher, father etc There is a difference between ascribed and achieved social status.
8.
What are social institutions?
Answer: Social roles taht arrange themselves in clusters each one having a strong connection with related topics- the role of a patient to take the advice of the Dr or nurse (all three are interlinked.)
9.
Why are sanctions used?
Answer: To guide us to what is acceptable and what isn’t (to develop the norms and values of our culture)
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