The document discusses key sociological concepts including culture, identity, norms and values, and socialization. It defines culture as things like concerts, buildings, food, language, and clothes, while defining society as things like schools, hospitals, police, towns, shops, industry, and government. It asks how personal identity comes from things like clothes, music, home, and job, while social identity comes from age, gender, status, ethnicity, and association. Finally, it defines norms as guidelines for behavior and values as beliefs about what is good and bad, and explains that primary socialization involves learning from close family, while secondary socialization expands learning to outside the family.

1. Key Terms in Sociology
Subcultures
High and Low Culture
Mass Culture
Culture
Popular Culture
Personal Identity Global Culture
Identity
Social Identity
Good and Bad
Norms and Values Social Behaviours
Social Attitudes
Socialisation Primary Socialisation
Secondary Socialisation
Nature vs Nurture

2. What is the difference between Culture and Society?
Concerts
Buildings
Food Language
Culture
Graduation
Proms Clothes
Can you come up with examples of things
which are Culture and other things which are
part of society?
School
Hospital
Society Police Towns
Shops
Industry Government

3. What is the difference between Personal and Social Identity
Clothes
Speech
Home Friends
Personal Identity
Job
Music Education
How do people identify themselves and how
does Society identify them?
Age
Gender
Status Social Identity
Ethnicity
Association Class

4. How are Norms and Values different?
Norms are guidelines for
behaviour in social settings.
Norms
e.g.
Holding door open for people.
Not interrupting when people
speak.
Using knife and fork correctly.
Values are beliefs about what is
good and bad. A simple
definition is ‘socially accepted’
beliefs. This may include
religious beliefs, if that is the
Values social norm.
e.g. Meritocracy; Marriage;
Freedom of Speec.

5. What is Socialisation?
Being made social?
Who or what is responsible for
socialising people?
Process of learning from
Primary Socialisation
others about how to behave
Learning from close family – in society.
speech, walking, basic This would include learning
interactions in limited setting. about the dominant cultural
norms and values contained
in the society.
Secondary Socialisation
Learning from outside close
family, applying skills to wider
settings.