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Relations among young children in peer groups are usually fairly:Read the answer and worked solution →In some small traditional societies, peer groups are formalised as:Read the answer and worked solution →From about what age do children spend much time with same-age friends?Read the answer and worked solution →Why can parents enforce conduct codes more than peers can?Read the answer and worked solution →What can a child do in a peer group that is harder to do under parental control?Read the answer and worked solution →Peer relationships in a person's life are usually important:Read the answer and worked solution →Girls, but rarely boys, being asked to sweep the classroom shows the school's:Read the answer and worked solution →Some schools make boys do tasks usually left to girls. This aims to:Read the answer and worked solution →The link between on-screen violence and aggression in children is:Read the answer and worked solution →Large numbers of people going out to a separate workplace is mainly a feature of:Read the answer and worked solution →Besides shaping behaviour, socialisation also helps a person develop:Read the answer and worked solution →Hearing different rules at home and with friends shows that agencies:Read the answer and worked solution →Rights and responsibilities attached to a person's social position are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Whether a family speaks dialect or standard form depends on its:Read the answer and worked solution →Learning the values of one's culture, mainly in the family, is:Read the answer and worked solution →Learning proper behaviour for a smaller group outside the home is:Read the answer and worked solution →A new teacher learning the unwritten rules of a school illustrates:Read the answer and worked solution →A trainee teacher practises classroom routines before ever joining a school. This is:Read the answer and worked solution →Who first defined anticipatory socialisation, studying soldiers in 1949?Read the answer and worked solution →Discarding old behaviour patterns and accepting new ones in a transition is:Read the answer and worked solution →In a total institution, resocialisation first tries to:Read the answer and worked solution →Which sociologist is credited with the term 'total institution'?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is an example of a total institution?Read the answer and worked solution →Group socialisation theory says adult personality is shaped most by:Read the answer and worked solution →Boys are handed toy cars and girls dolls, each praised for 'proper' play. This is:Read the answer and worked solution →Which is a way parents socialise gender roles in their children?Read the answer and worked solution →According to Mead, the self at birth is:Read the answer and worked solution →Who proposed the idea of the 'looking-glass self'?Read the answer and worked solution →In the looking-glass self, a person's self-concept comes from:Read the answer and worked solution →Which is the third step in Cooley's looking-glass self?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Relations among young children in peer groups are usually fairly:

  1. hierarchical
  2. authoritarian
  3. ritualised
  4. egalitarian
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Correct answer: D. egalitarian

1. In peer groups, children are equals ('peer' means equal). 2. Friendly relations between young children tend to be reasonably egalitarian, with more give and take than in the family. 3. Hierarchical and authoritarian describe parent-child relations better. _Source: NCERT Class XI Sociology, Introducing Sociology, Ch 4 Culture and Socialisation, "Peer Groups", p. 76_

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In some small traditional societies, peer groups are formalised as:

  1. kin-groups
  2. work guilds
  3. age-grades
  4. village councils
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Correct answer: C. age-grades

1. Peer groups are normally informal friendship groups. 2. In some cultures, particularly small traditional societies, they become formal age-grades. 3. Kin-groups, guilds and councils are not age-based peer groups. _Source: NCERT Class XI Sociology, Introducing Sociology, Ch 4 Culture and Socialisation, "Peer Groups", p. 76_

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From about what age do children spend much time with same-age friends?

  1. Under one year
  2. Around ten years
  3. After adolescence
  4. Four or five years
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Correct answer: D. Four or five years

1. Even without formal age-grades, peer contact starts early. 2. Children over four or five usually spend a great deal of time with friends of the same age. 3. One year is too early, and ten or after adolescence is too late. _Source: NCERT Class XI Sociology, Introducing Sociology, Ch 4 Culture and Socialisation, "Peer Groups", p. 76_

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