Vitor Sundargi D) Examine the sociological explanations of the process of socialisation. Socialisation is the name given to the learning of one’s culture and how to live within it. One of the sociological theories is that of the Functionalist. They believe that the child is born a blank slate and that the family is a “personality factory”. Since the family is the primary stage of socialisation, the function of the parents is to train and mould the child into the image of society and the child will often imitate and learn from the parents and their actions. For example, if the child sees its mother expressing a discriminatory opinion about a minority group, the child might see it acceptable to do the same. The child is filled up with the same shared values as the parents so it automatically assumes those values to be his own.
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