This pack of lessons includes the whole topic of socialisation and the creation of identity on the Cambridge international specification.
Includes the following:
• The process of learning and socialisation
• Culture, roles, norms, values, beliefs, customs, ideology, power and status as elements in the social
construction of reality.
• The importance of socialisation in influencing human behaviour, including the nurture versus nature
debate.
• Agencies of socialisation and social control, including family, education, peer group, media and religion.
• Social control, conformity and resistance
• The role of structure and agency in shaping the relationship between the individual and society, including
an awareness of the differences between structuralist and interactionist views.
• Factors explaining why individuals conform to social expectations, including sanctions, social pressure,
self-interest and social exchange.
• The mechanisms through which order is maintained, including power, ideology, force and consensus.
• How sociologists explain deviance and non-conformity, including subcultures, under-socialisation,
marginalisation, cultural deprivation and social resistance.
• Social identity and change
• Social class, gender, ethnicity and age as elements in the construction of social identity.
• How social class, gender, ethnicity and age identities may be changing due to globalisation, increased
choice and the creation of new/hybrid identities.

• Can be used for other specifications (GCSE and A Level)