A Level Sociology Culture and Identity Assessement Questions And Answers Rated A+.
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(socializationprocess) What is Socialization? - Answer Learning culture through socialization allows us to operate in society. A new born is born without understanding. Allows for predictability and limited ciaos and confusion as people know what is expected
(socializationprocess) What is REs...
A Level Sociology Culture and Identity
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(socializationprocess) What is Socialization? - Answer Learning culture through socialization allows us
to operate in society. A new born is born without understanding. Allows for predictability and limited
ciaos and confusion as people know what is expected
(socializationprocess) What is REsocialization? - Answer Being taken out of usual social situations and
being placed in new ones. Having to learn new norms and values.
(socializationprocess) Explain Primary Socialization? - Answer Occurs through the early years through
family. Parsons said it is crucial in turning babies into social beings and teaches norms and values before
understanding themselves as individuals
(socializationprocess) Explain Secondary Socialization? - Answer Continuous process as we grow older.
Creation of New Social Identities based upon Primary Identities and link to roles people adopt
(socializationprocess)Nature vs Nurture? - Answer Nurture that makes people fully social members of
society
(socializationprocess) Feral Children? - Answer Missed out on the socialization process thus fail to
demonstrate aspects of human behavior
(socializationprocess) Functionalists - Family: Parsons? - Answer Primary socialization is crucial in
turning new-born babies into social beings, young children imitate the behaviors of their parents and
older siblings and learn what is right and wrong. Firstly learn basic norms and values of society before
understanding a sense of themselves
(socializationprocess) Functionalists - Education: Durkheim? - Answer Schools are society in miniature,
through the hidden curriculum children learn to follow a fixed set of rules. Providing preparation for later
in life
,(socializationprocess) Functionalists - Education: Parsons? - Answer Believes education provides a
bridge from particularistic values of the home to universalistic values of society. This means it socializes
children into basic norms and values of society
(socializationprocess) Functionalists - Education: Davis and Moore? - Answer The education system
helps to socialise children into the meritocratic principles of society. Education system is meritocratic and
people are judged according to their ability and effort, not according to who they are allowing for social
mobility
(socializationprocess) Functionalists - Education: Evaluation? - Answer Too readily assume there is a
consensus over norms and values students are socialized into. Hargreaves believes the education system
promotes individualism and competition in society
(socializationprocess) Functionalists - Religion: Parsons? - Answer Believe it is an integrative force that
helps people to live harmoniously and a regularity force that helps back up the laws of society, each
religion has a code of laws that must be obeyed as does society
(socializationprocess) Functionalists - Religion: Evaluation? - Answer Casanova found religion does not
provide consensus and unity. Instead most conflicts in society have religious foundations. For example
the Iraq war
(socializationprocess) Marxists - Family: Zaretsky? - Answer Family is a prop to capitalism, the
hierarchical way family is organised discourages workers from questioning the nature of capitalism.
Producing workers needed for capitalism, with children socialised to obey.
(socializationprocess) Marxists - Family: Evaluation? - Answer Ignore the positive function of the family
- functionalities would stress the benefits families perform for individuals and society as a whole
(socializationprocess) Marxists - Religion? - Answer It is an ideological force as religious beliefs aren't
true, rather manipulated and presented by the most powerful group in society. It controls the feelings of
workers to stop them wanting a revolution. It is the 'opium of the masses' meaning it acts as a type of
drug to keep the workers passive and stop revolution
,(socializationprocess) Feminists - Family? - Answer The family socializes women into benefiting
capitalism. Woman's oppression is said to perform vital functions for capitalism by socializing women
into thinking they should want children, women are reproducing the labor force.
(socializationprocess) Feminists - Family: Ansley? - Answer Sees domestic violence as an outlet of men's
frustration with the exploitation they experience in the workplace
(socializationprocess) Feminists - Family: Radical Feminists? - Answer Maintain that the main source of
women's oppression in the family is patriarchy, claiming the family and marriage are an exploitative
institution that benefits men.
(socializationprocess) Feminists - Family: Evaluation? - Answer Ignores the positive aspects of family
life, many women actively choose and enjoy looking after home and bringing up children. Ignores recent
equality break-through with better access to divorce, jobs and control over fertility
(socializationprocess) Feminists - Religion: De Beauvoir? - Answer Argues religion oppresses women in
the same way as Marx suggests religion oppresses working classes. They see it a a ideological force with
leaders being male and teaches women how to act through secondary socialization i.e. being subservient
to men
(socializationprocess) Feminists - Religion: Watson? - Answer Highlighted the use of veils within the
Muslim faith as an example of oppression as it is seen by many as a way of socially controlling women
(socializationprocess) Feminists - Religion: Evaluation? - Answer Not all religions can be criticized for
being patriarchal, women are taking an active role in religion.
(identity) What is meant by Identity? - Answer - How we and others see us
- Some parts of identity are shared wearas others are unique
- Indentity is fluid wearas personality is fixed
(identity) How is Identity formed? - Answer -Through social institutions, the socialization process and
how we interact with others. Identity is socially constructed. We are not free to adopt any identity we
like as class/gender/ethnicity are likely to influence how people see us
, (identity) What are the 8 types of identity? - Answer Collective / Social / Individual / Multiple /
Cultural / Achieved / Ascribed / Stigmatized
(identity) Collective Identity? - Answer Refers to the individuals sense of beloning to a group or
collective i.e. subculture or group
(identity) Social Identity? - Answer Refers to a collective sense of belonging to a group. Individuals
identity themselves being similar to others in the group i.e. gender/ethnic
(identity) Individual Identity? - Answer The unique sense of personhood held by each person in his or
hers own right. Created by social interaction i.e. dna/personal history
(identity) Multiple Identity? - Answer People have several identities that. You can draw one source of
identity and may insert differant 'selves' depending on circumstances i.e/ good daughter/student
(identity) Cultural Identity? - Answer A sense of belonging to a distinct ethnic, cultural or sub cultural
group
(identity) Achieved Identity? - Answer Individuals can shape there own identity. This type of identity is
selected through the individual i.e. teacher/student
(identity) Ascribed Identity? - Answer Identity given though society i.e. female
(identity) Stigmatized Identity? - Answer Geoffman argues this is undesirable and excludes people from
full acceptance in society. those with this identity can face serious social consequences e.g. contempt /
refused employment etc i.e. blind/mentally ill
(identity) Jenkins concept on Identity? - Answer 'Involves knowing who we are, knowing who others
are and hoe others see us etc'
(identity) Lawlers concept on Identity? - Answer We share identity to make us similar to others.
Nobody is identical, always will be something that makes us unique. Self understanding is learnt early
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