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
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
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Which perspective would be most interested in how people communicate and form relationships through MUDs (multi-user domains)?
Correct answer D. Interactionist perspective
Weber identified four ideal types of social action: instrumentally rational, value-rational, traditional and which other?
Correct answer A. Affectual
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
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
Which of these statements reflects what sociologists believe?
Correct answer B. Individual is the product of social group within which he is socialised
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A person deprived of all human communication from birth would lack all but one of the following. Which one?
Correct answer C. Rudimentary personality
What is the process of social interaction through which people acquire the knowledge, attitudes, values and behaviour needed to take part effectively in society?
Correct answer C. Socialisation
What does the Thomas theorem state?
Correct answer D. If situations are defined as real they are real in their consequences
What mainly determines whether a person’s self-esteem is high or low?
Correct answer B. Social comparisons
What are the main developmental tasks of middle adulthood?
Correct answer C. Love and work