| A | B |
|---|
| Norm | Expected behaviour in society unwritten expectations |
| Value | Beliefs that lie behind social norms |
| Role | That you inhabit - sister, patient, doctor |
| Ascribed Staus | Status at birth |
| Achieved Status | Status achieved |
| Sex | Biological difference between male and female |
| Gender | Sociological differences |
| Stereotype | Expected trait of a particular person |
| Socialisation | Process by which we learn our norms, roles and values |
| Positive discrimination | Enable equality by only giiving the option of one gender |
| Canalisation | Channeling a childs gender |
| Primary | Initial socialisation in the family |
| Secondary | Agencies such as the media, school |
| Glass ceiling | Discrimination in the work place - position women meet in work |
| Nature | Biologists argue that people behave as they do because they are animals who act according to animal instincts and their genes. |
| Nurture | The way that sociologist believe behaviour is learned |
| Patriarchy | Male dominated society |
| Role Conflict | Occurs when the needs of two roles conflicts |
| Culture | a shared learned way of life |
| social control | the way behaviour is regulated and controlled by society |
| Mores | Astronger form of norms |
| Peer group | a group sharing the same social position |
| feminism | focuses on the situation of women |
