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What are the agents of socialisation?

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Family, peers, media, beliefs, school, culture, location.

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What are the most common agents of socialisation? (hint: there are five)

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Family, peers, school, media and location

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What is ethnocentricity?

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Ethnocentricity means that you only judge things by your own cultural values, and beliefs in your culture’s inherent superiority.

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Class

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A system where societies are organised into hierarchical levels based on power, privilege and wealth.

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Ethnicity

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An individuals’s identification with, or sense of belonging to, an ethnic group. This is based on perceived common origins that people share, such as a specific ancestry and culture, that mark them as different from others.

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Kinship

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Established relationships between individuals and groups on the basis of socially recognised biological relationships or marital links.

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Life course

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A culturally defined sequence of age categories through which people are usually expected to pass as they progress from birth to death.

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Life stages

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The successive stages of life from childhood to ‘adolescence’, adult life and old age that collectively define people by being of a particular age group.

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Responsibility

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The ability or authority to act or make decisions on one’s own, without supervision. This is associated with being accountable for decisions that are made.

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Rights

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The social, civil and political rights accorded to individuals. These include human rights- the fundamental rights that individuals should have as humans, such as the right to life, equality before the law, education and freedom of belief.

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Roles

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The social expectations that attached to a particular social position and the analysis of those expectations. This may include the rights and obligations associated with the position

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Self-concept

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Composed of the various identities, attitudes, beliefs and values that an individual holds about himself or herself and by which the individual defines himself or herself as a specific objective identity: the ‘self’.

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Social construct

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A socially created aspect of social life. Social constructions argue that society is actively and creatively produced by human beings rather than being merely given or taken for granted.

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Socialisation

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The process by which individuals learn to become functioning members of society by internalising the roles, norms and values of that society. Socialisation occurs as a result of the individual’s interaction with the agents of socialisation, through which he or she learns to perform social roles.

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Status

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The form of social stratification in which social positions are ranked and organised by legal, political and cultural criteria into status groups which confer positive and negative privileges. Status groups can be competitive as they seek to preserve privileges by excluding rivals.

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Social-economic status

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Social-economic status is a person financial and social position in relation to others. Occupation, income and educational (as well as family) commonly affect ones socio-economic status.

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Self-concept

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Self Concept is a person’s perception of his or her own personality traits. It is the mental picture you have about yourself, based on your ideas perceptions, stories and feelings about who you are.

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Personality

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Personality is a person’s unique and relatively stable behavior patterns.

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What is the difference between personality and self-concept?

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Basically, Personality is based off of patterns of thinking, behavior, and emotions, while Self concept is determined by the perception of who you think you are.

Self concept affects behavior and in turn, it shapes personality.

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Self-awareness

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Self-awareness is the consciousness of our existence and degree to which we understand ourselves personally.

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What is the difference between self-awareness and self-concept?

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Self-awareness is the consciousness of our existence and degree to which we understand ourselves personally

Self-concept on the other hand is image or memories that you have about yourself.

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What are the theories of personality types?

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The theory of Personality Types states that individuals are:

either primarily Extraverted or Introverted
either primarily Sensing or iNtuitive
either primarily Thinking or Feeling
either primarily Judging or Perceiving