Explain how culture and socialisation interact in a sociological context?
Culture is our knowledge we gain from birth as a result of our immersement into our cultural group. Socialisation is the way in which we learn this information we gain from such contact. When we look at the two ‘Culture and Socialisation’ and study how this interaction occurs, what is gained, changed, modified, etc we are defining the interaction of culture and socialisation and how they react to each other we are using ‘Sociology’.
Culture is known to us as the knowledge you learn from birth, from within your own group. It involves learning and establishing our languages, belief’s, norms, mores, sanctions, both positive and negative influences, sub and counter cultures. When we learn a culture we are learning a “peoples values – their ideas of what is desirable in life.”( Henslin, Possamai & Possamai-Indesedy 2011, p. 50) Through culture, people and groups define themselves, conform to society's shared values, and contribute to society. We learn to cope with being thrown into this culture, we learn how to adapt and copy from our family circle, mother, father, siblings, perhaps, extended families including aunties and uncles and cousins. We learn the gestures, so we become acceptable and socialised within this group.
Socialisation on the other hand is the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group and their culture, therefore shaping the identity. “We start to become aware of other people in this world, attuned to them.” (Plummer 2010, p.2) While culture is what you learn, socialisation is how you learn it. The way you view things in society (your sociological perspective) such as what is right or wrong and what is appropriate behaviour, for example what would be ok for females vs males, is because of the way you were raised to perceive things and along