Which institution is most closely linked with the process of socialisation?
Correct answer A. Family
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A child learns behaviour, values and actions from their family. What type of socialisation is this?
Correct answer A. Primary socialisation
What is a socially isolated setting that still provides for all the needs of its members called?
Correct answer A. Total institution
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What is broad socialisation intended to encourage?
Correct answer A. Independence and self-expression
The Japanese emphasis on conformity in their culture is an example of what?
Correct answer A. Narrow socialisation
Evidence for the importance of socialisation comes from a few cases of children who, through neglect, experienced what?
Correct answer B. Were not socialised by adults while they were growing up
Which theory sees socialisation as a series of stages in which a person learns to take part in various levels of social organisation and internalises a cognitive frame of reference for relationships?
Correct answer C. Internalisation theory
Which statement describes Isabelle?
Correct answer A. Kept in almost total seclusion for the first six years of her life
The word stratification comes from the geological concept of ‘strata’. What does strata mean?
Correct answer C. Rock layers
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A stratum of people occupying similar positions on the social status continuum is known as what?
Correct answer C. Social class
During the twentieth century, the family’s protective function has increasingly passed to outside agencies. Which of these are examples?
Correct answer D. All of the above
What determines a person’s social class?
Correct answer D. All of the above
Which perspective would be most interested in how people communicate and form relationships through MUDs (multi-user domains)?
Correct answer D. Interactionist perspective
Among which groups does the socialisation of children take place?
Correct answer D. Both A and C
Weber identified four ideal types of social action: instrumentally rational, value-rational, traditional and which other?
Correct answer A. Affectual
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According to Nancy Chodorow (1978), how does gender socialisation occur?
Correct answer B. Both boys and girls being closely attached to their mothers, but then boys breaking away
Social relations are directly proportional to what?
Correct answer B. Social class
What did Judith Butler (1999) suggest about gender?
Correct answer C. Gender is performed through bodily gestures and styles to create sex
What is the main agent of primary socialisation?
Correct answer B. Family
Why were the capitalist class of the mid-twentieth century said to have joined the upper class?
Correct answer D. Owned companies and financial assets that generated wealth through corporations