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Identity from core booklet

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What term do we use to describe how identities are created by society?

a)

Biologically determined

b)

natural

c)

socially constructed

d)

socialisation

2.

What two parts to your identity are there?

a)

Created and biological

b)

Personal and social

c)

Constructed and socialised

3.

What agent of socialisation is most significant in the early years?

a)

Media

b)

Family

c)

Education

d)

Workplace

4.

Are official rules an example of formal or informal social control

a)

Formal

b)

Informal

5.

Which sociologists would argue that gender identity is a construct of patriarchy?

a)

Feminist

b)

Marxist

c)

Functionalist

d)

Postmodernist

6.

Which sociologist looked at socialisation into gender identities in the family (canalisation, manipulation, verbal appellations, different activities)

(a)  

7.

Which form of social control is used by the Media

a)

Peer pressure

b)

Hidden curriculum

c)

Stereotyping

8.

Using influencers to create a socially accepted form of femininity or masculinity would be what form of social control?

a)

Manipulation

b)

Sanctions

c)

Role Models

9.

Cashmore and Troyna looked at how racism in wider society can cause ethnic minorities in peer groups to....

a)

become resistent

b)

reject ethnic differences

c)

turn inwards

10.

Which type of socialisation is the process of learning that continues through your life

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

11.

Which is not a form of informal social control?

a)

Praise

b)

Rewards

c)

Criticism

d)

Official Rules

12.

Which status includes characteristics or a position that we are born with?

a)

Ascribed

b)

Achieved

13.

The guidelines of how to behave which are created by your society

a)

Customs

b)

Culture

c)

Norms

d)

Values

14.

The way of life of a group of people which includes norms, values, traditions, customs...

a)

Culture

b)

Norms

c)

Values

d)

Roles

15.

Is Education a form of primary or secondary socialisation?

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

16.

The guidelines or unwritten rules that govern behaviour

a)

Norms

b)

Values

17.

Which sociologist looked at how hyper masculine identities are created in rap music where young black boys follow as role models influencing their ethnic identity

a)

Sewell

b)

Ferguson

c)

Oakley