Lesson Recap

In your designated groups, answer the following questions

In what ways are ethnic identities in the UK changing?

What do you think is the most influential agent in shaping ethnic identities?

What evidence can you give to support your point?

Identity, Culture and Socialisation:Ethnicity

L.O’s to understand how ethnic identities are changing

To evaluate the role of the Family in influencing ethnic identities

Family & Ethnic Identity

• Ghuman (1999): first generation of Asian parents arriving in UK in 1950s/60s were keen to pass on the following key values to their children during primary socialisation: Obedience, loyalty to & respectful of their elders &

their community. Choice of education & marriage partner was left to

parents. Children taught of the disadvantages of pre-marital sex & dating.

Religious training was very important.

• Ghuman (1999): first generation of Asian parents arriving in UK in 1950s/60s were keen to pass on the following key values to their children during primary socialisation: Obedience, loyalty to & respectful of their elders &

their community. Choice of education & marriage partner was left to

parents. Children taught of the disadvantages of pre-marital sex & dating.

Religious training was very important.

Ghuman (1999) continued:• Using first language (mother tongue) was

extremely important as it reinforced the links between generations.

• Asian families – whether Hindu, Muslim or Sikh – socialised children into a pattern of duty, obligation & loyalty.

• Concept of ‘izzat’ or family honour was particularly important to Muslim kinship networks.

• Using first language (mother tongue) was extremely important as it reinforced the links between generations.

• Asian families – whether Hindu, Muslim or Sikh – socialised children into a pattern of duty, obligation & loyalty.

• Concept of ‘izzat’ or family honour was particularly important to Muslim kinship networks.

Family & Ethnic Identity

• Miri Song (2003) looked at labour participation in Chinese families running take-away businesses.

• She found that parents saw their children as ‘less Chinese’ if they did not want to help out in the family business.

• This happened even if they aspired to professional careers in the law or medicine.

• Miri Song (2003) looked at labour participation in Chinese families running take-away businesses.

• She found that parents saw their children as ‘less Chinese’ if they did not want to help out in the family business.

• This happened even if they aspired to professional careers in the law or medicine.

Miri Song (2003) continued:• Chinese parents were proud to have built up

a business & saw their children as disrespectful of their hard work & commitment.

• Their children had developed cultural hybrids so causing a culture clash.

• Parents thought their children were losing some of the values of their original culture.

• Chinese parents were proud to have built up a business & saw their children as disrespectful of their hard work & commitment.

• Their children had developed cultural hybrids so causing a culture clash.

• Parents thought their children were losing some of the values of their original culture.

Education & Ethnic Identity• In school an individual’s ethnic identity can be

shaped by the formal & informal curriculum.• Sewell (2000) found that Afro-Caribbean

children found ‘cultural comfort zones’ in the playground with their peers where they felt safe.

• Mason (2005) believes that many schools are ‘ethnocentric’ – their curriculum is taught only from the majority cultural view.

• This is backed up by Johal & Bains (1998) who argue some children wear a ‘white mask’ to fit in with the majority culture.

• In school an individual’s ethnic identity can be shaped by the formal & informal curriculum.

• Sewell (2000) found that Afro-Caribbean children found ‘cultural comfort zones’ in the playground with their peers where they felt safe.

• Mason (2005) believes that many schools are ‘ethnocentric’ – their curriculum is taught only from the majority cultural view.

• This is backed up by Johal & Bains (1998) who argue some children wear a ‘white mask’ to fit in with the majority culture.

Education & Ethnic Identity• Sewell (2000) saw that black boys in his

study often did not believe or understand that some teaching practices were actually racist.

• Wright et al. (2006) discovered that black girls in their study felt that some teachers treated them unfairly in lessons. The girls saw the teachers actions as racist.

• Sewell (2000) saw that black boys in his study often did not believe or understand that some teaching practices were actually racist.

• Wright et al. (2006) discovered that black girls in their study felt that some teachers treated them unfairly in lessons. The girls saw the teachers actions as racist.

Work in groups of four, each read one of the studies in your ethnic identity booklet, and Waugh et al

Francis and Archer Modood Gillespie Ghuman

Highlight or underline in two different colours any information on family structures and family values

Working as a group share your information and complete the table on the next slide

Ethnic Group

CommonFamily Structure

Key values and socialisation

Francis and Archer

Modood

Gillespie

Ghuman

NEXT LESSON; RELIGION

Religion

In what ways could religion shape the identities of ethnic minorities?

Religion and Ethnic Identity Policies on immigration in the UK in the

last 20 years has progressed through three broad policies: assimilation, multiculturalism, integration

Religion fulfils a role of functions for ethnic minorities

Durkheim suggested that religions fulfils the role of maintaining social solidarity and consensus in society

Religion and Ethnic Identity Modood’s (1997) research on South Asian

communities confirmed Durkheim’s ideas and reflected on the role of helping ethnic minorities in feeling a sense of belonging

Religion and Ethnic Identity

Butler carried out research on the role of veiling in the lives of British Asian females

Religion and Ethnic Identity

Other sociologists, such as Pryce, found that religion can provide an identity based on resistance EGs Rastafarians, Muslims

Ballard also suggested that religion offers empowerment through resistance to assimilation

Peer Groups

Suggest reasons for the formation of sub-cultures amongst ethnic minorities…

Peer Groups

Tony Sewell links his work on African-Carribean teenagers to the education system and the media

The boys in his study expressed feelings on exclusion from an education system dominated by white culture, and teachers that label black youths as deviant

He believes this is partly why male African-Carribean subcultures exaggerate their masculinity within a ‘cultural comfort zone’ and adopt identities based around Hip Hop culture

Next Lesson: The Media and

Identity, Culture and Socialisation: Ethnicity

L.O to understand how ethnic identities are changing

To evaluate the role of the media in shaping ethnic identities

Ethnicity and the British Media Jihally in (1992) suggested an almost

complete omission of ethnic minority culture in the British media

Summarise how black people are portrayed by the media according to the following sociologists

GillespieSewell

Ethnicity and the British Media This has since changed significantly

Sanjeev Baskar is now one of the most sucessful comedians in Britain

His comedies are noted for their use of ‘Hinglish’ using integrating the use of words like ‘chuddie’

This is one example of the English language borrowing from other cultures

‘Hinglish’ innit?! Listen to the radio interview, and read the

BBC article and follow the instructions below: Define the term Hinglish How does this illustrate hybridity Provide three examples of Hinglish List three examples of words commonly

used in Britain that have their roots in other languages