Key concepts and socialisation overview quiz - Eduqas GCSE Sociology quiz

The whole way of life of a society: its shared beliefs, customs, norms and values

Only the art, music and literature produced by the most educated people in a society

The genetic make-up shared by a whole population and passed on from parents to children

The set of laws passed by a government that everybody in a society must obey

Norms are general beliefs about what matters; values are the specific rules we follow

Norms are specific rules of behaviour; values are general beliefs about what is important

They mean exactly the same thing and can be used interchangeably in any sentence

Norms are the laws set by the government; values are just the customs of a particular culture

An achieved status

A master status

An ascribed status

A role conflict

The education system

The media

The workplace

The family

Behaviour is mainly learned through socialisation (nurture)

Behaviour is entirely fixed by our genes and cannot be changed by experience

Children do not need any contact with other people to develop completely normally

Language is purely instinctive and develops the same way whatever a child's upbringing

A conflict perspective focused on the struggle between social classes over wealth

A consensus perspective that sees society held together by shared values

A small-scale perspective focused on labelling and the meanings people attach

A conflict perspective focused on the inequality and power struggle between genders

The working class who sell their labour to employers for a wage

Religious leaders who hold spiritual authority over their followers

The ruling class who own the means of production

Government officials who run the institutions of the modern state

The shared values that benefit everyone in society equally and fairly

The specific expected rules of behaviour that people follow in a situation

The biological basis of human behaviour that is inherited rather than learned

Ruling-class ideas that make inequality seem natural and fair

A society organised around male power in which women are disadvantaged

A society in which there is no gender inequality at all between men and women

The shared values and beliefs that hold the members of a culture together

A small-scale form of interaction between individuals in everyday situations

Talcott Parsons, the functionalist

Howard Becker

Karl Marx, the conflict theorist

George Murdock, the family theorist

It is a large-scale structural theory that explains society through its institutions

It denies that socialisation happens to people at any stage of their lives

It is a small-scale theory focused on meaning and interaction rather than structure

It is only about the economy and the way that wealth is produced and divided

Component 2, Understanding Social Structures

A separate methods paper

Coursework only

Component 1, Understanding Social Processes