Socialisation
Social Identity
Research Methods
Family
Theory and Debate
100
What is primary socialisation?

The first stage of learning norms and values/the family

100

What is a hybrid identity?

A mix of 2 or more cultural / ethnic identities.

100

When a study can be consistently repeated it can be characterised as what?

Reliable

100

What is the symmetrical family?

When fathers and mothers share the domestic work within the home

100

What is value consensus?

Shared norms and values across society
200

What agent of secondary socialisation has the strongest impact in adolescence?

Peers

200

What is social identity?

A person's sense of self based on group membership

200

What ethical issues arise in covert participant observation?

Lack of informed consent, potential harm, and researcher deception.

200

Which theory states that the functions of the family adapt to society's needs?

The Functional Fit Theory

200

What is the social contract?

An agreement that individual's will follow society's norms or accept punishment.

300

Norm enforcement through law is what type of social control?

Formal sanction

300

Which theory states that we create our self-image through others?

Cooley's Looking Glass Self

300

What is the name for when quantitative and qualitative research methods are combined?

Triangulation

300

Who stated that the nuclear family is the only correct family type?

Charles Murray

300

What concept describes how media contributes to exaggerated public fear of deviance?

Moral Panic

400

How does the family reinforce gender identity through socialisation? (Oakley)

Canalisation / Manipulation /Verbal Appellation / Differential activity exposure

400

What is intersectionality within the context of social identity?

Overlapping identities (e.g. race, gender, class) create unique experiences of advantage or oppression.

400

Name 6 sociological sampling techniques

Snowball, Quota, Stratified, Random, Multi-Stage, Systematic

400

The New Right claim that benefits lead to what?

A culture of dependency

400

Which sociologist described the family as a “unit of consumption”?

Eli Zaretsky

500

Bourdieu's term for a shared cultural toolkit is called...

Habitus

500

What concept did Giddens use to refer to the fact that identity must change and adapt?

Reflexivity

500

What is the word that interpretivists use to refer to their research as valid?

Verstehen

500

What is Giddens' 'pure relationship' theory?

Marriages today are build on choice, not duty.

500

What is Foucault’s concept for the internalisation of surveillance?

Panopticism / The Panopticon

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