1 Primary Socialisation

Ghuman

• Asian family values: tradition, respect- central aspects of their primary socialisation

• how ethnicity helps change identity

Oakley

• manipulation (encouraging behaviour) & canalisation

• parents act as role models

• feminists worry this is how patriarchy is continued

Gillies

• WC & MC class parenting styles

• eg. positive sanctions rewarding academic acheivement, strategies to cope with injustice

Murray

• single-parent families provide inadequate socialisation

• ‘underclass’ & ‘welfare dependent’

Sharpe

• values change over time, dependent on era and location

• eg Sexual Offences Act 1967 (decriminalised homosexuality)

McRobbie & Garber

• bedroom culture

• girls more domesticated