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Society, Culture and Socialisation — lesson overview
Society and social relationships
Society involves patterns of social relationships, institutions, and shared life. It is more than a crowd of individuals temporarily in one place.
A social institution is a relatively enduring pattern of rules and roles meeting important social needs, such as family, education, economy, and government.
Individuals influence institutions, while institutions also shape opportunities and expectations. Neither complete individual freedom nor complete social determination is an adequate explanation.
Culture and socialisation
Culture includes learned meanings, practices, knowledge, values, and material expressions. Cultural difference should not automatically be ranked as superiority or inferiority.
Socialisation is the process through which people learn and negotiate ways of participating in social life. Family, peers, education, media, and work can all be involved.
Socialisation continues across life; it is not confined to childhood or to a single institution. People can also question and change norms.
Diversity and inequality
Diversity refers to differences in ways of life or social characteristics. Inequality concerns unequal access to valued resources, opportunities, status, or power.
Difference does not logically require inequality. Social arrangements can turn a difference into a disadvantage, or can recognise difference while protecting equal dignity.
An explanation should distinguish individual experience from a wider pattern, using evidence rather than assuming every member of a group has the same life.
