Culture, norms, values & roles

• Culture — a whole way of life.
• Norms — rules of behaviour.
• Values — shared beliefs about what matters.
• Roles — expected behaviour of a status.

Spec note (please read): OCR withdrew GCSE Sociology (J696); its final exams were in summer 2018 and it was not redeveloped for the current 9–1 GCSEs. This lesson teaches mainstream GCSE Sociology content that matches the old J696 topic. If you are sitting a current exam, check whether your school uses AQA or Eduqas instead.

Key term

Primary & secondary socialisation

• Primary — family, early years.
• Secondary — education, peers, media, religion, workplace.
• Agencies of socialisation teach us culture.

Sort the agency

Tap an agency, then whether it is primary or secondary (or can be both).

Socialisation

Identity & the self

• Identity — our sense of who we are, shaped by gender, class, ethnicity, age and nationality.
• Nature vs nurture — sociologists stress nurture; feral child cases show behaviour is learned.

Your turn — percentage

Your turn — percentage change

Match agency to type

Tap an agency, then its type.

Your turn — response rate

Your turn — percentage

Nature vs nurture

Your turn — sample size

Agency

Socialisation, culture & identity — the big ideas

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