2 Secondary Socialisation

Durkheim

• hidden curriculum teaches children value consensus through sanctions and rewards

• education form of informal social control

Davis & Moore

• role allocation theory

• jobs allocated through skills and talent

• link to meritocracy as people have earned their pay

The Sutton Trust

• (group that helps provide opportunities through education for those less advantaged)

• ‘Elitist Britain’ research study

• 1/3 MPs went to private school, despite only 7% of the population attending private education

Becker

• labelling theory

• self-fulfilling prophecy

Hey

• female peer groups

• informal sanctions, must conform to expectations

• differing values and behaviours among each social class

Turkle

• ‘alone together’

• negative effect on identity and relationships

Walter

• feminist

• impact of media specifically on women

• hypersexual culture, women seen as sexual objects, oversexualised clothing for girls

• can lead to eating disorders

• create unrealistic expectations

Hakim

• CA to Walter

• post-feminist

• women should embrace their sexual capital in order to gain more opportunity

Waddington

• ‘canteen culture’

• how work can resocialise us

• eg. police force environment often a ‘downtime’ where racist/sexist/homophobic comments are more likely to be shared

Skeggs

• how work can be a medium for resocialisation

• eg. working class nurses had to ‘retrain’ how they spoke, dressed, behaved in order to fit the more middle class environment