Socialisation

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Socialisation

• This is the process of learning how to behave in
  a way that is appropriate and acceptable to your
  culture.

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Primary socialisation

• This takes place in early childhood.
• It usually takes place in the home.
• It offers the basic norms and values of the
  family and the culture

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Secondary socialisation

• This involves external agencies and modifies the
  primary socialisation.
• It teaches norms for specific situations and can
  be interpersonal (teacher and pupil) or
  impersonal (media to audience)

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Agencies of Socialisation

• There are a variety of agencies of socialisation
  
• Family,
• Peer group
• Education
• Religion
• Mass media

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Functionalists

• These are generally American thinkers.
• They say that the purpose of socialisation is to
  unite society in a set of shared norms and
  values.
• This is a consensus sociology.

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Marxists

• These people say that the purpose of
  socialisation is to control the weak and
  defenceless and to give them the ideas that the
  powerful promote.
• People are taught an ideology
• This is known as conflict sociology.

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Thus

• Agencies of socialisation are also agencies of
  social control.
• Which viewpoint (Marxist or functionalist) you
  accept is your choice.
• Be certain you can support your view with
  evidence.

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Conclusions

• You are taught the rules of your society
  throughout your life.
• You share cultural values with people around you.
  
• Socialisation gives you a social identity.
• You may or may not be experiencing mind control
  but if you are, you are probably not aware of it.