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Analysis Of Macquarie Fields: The Field Of Broken Dreams

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Macquarie Fields: The Field of Broken Dreams
Macquarie Fields is a counterculture of Australian society. Its norms and values differ from the wider Australian culture. Social norms and values reflect society’s idea of what is considered right and wrong. The socialisation of the people in the stimulus is limited to their own subculture, meaning their norms and values are restricted to those of Macquarie Fields. Socialisation is the process when an enfant gradually learns to function as an adult in society. Socialisation is learnt from the agents of socialisation, such as family and education (Germov & Poole, 2015). The norms, values and lifestyles of the people in Macquarie Fields are caused by the residents’ exposure to agents of socialisation, and can be supported by the sociological approaches Functionalist and Conflict.
Family is the primary sociological agent. It teaches children physical skills such as walking and talking, and also introduces infants to values and the difference between right and wrong. In the stimulus there were many stories of children growing up in abusive or unsafe families, one example being the childhood of Robert Kelly, (talking about his mother) ‘She was drunk, a daily thing … she hit me with whatever she could her hands on’(Rushworth & Ferguson, 2009). Yet child abuse in Macquarie Fields doesn’t seem to register the kind of anger it does in most of Australia. For example, Milo Middleton’s attitude towards the violence he had just inflicted on
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