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Key Features Of Akram

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Social influences- can be various factors that affects how individuals fit into society and how it can impact a person’s development and behaviour, depending upon their two main agents of socialisation.
Primary agents of socialisation- which is your family who teach you how to behave appropriately within society, by teaching you values, norms and rules that are seen as acceptable within your culture to ensure that you behave acceptably within society. For example, It’s Akram’s family value/norm to follow the Islamic faith and regularly attend the local mosque and recite their prayers as it is a part of their religion. Which is seen as acceptable within society to follow these values as it is seen as the norm for their religious faith.
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In order to help an individual, achieve or gain a better quality of life for themselves within society in order to survive. An example of this would be Akram and his family came to Scotland to escape political issues in their own country to have a better life as a family and to have better access to resources and gain better opportunities such as education, housing, jobs and etc.
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He then became a victim of racial abuse due to his religious background, and decided to react by not attending school as he could no longer put up with the abuse he was receiving from his peers within school. Which then progressed on to deviant behaviour such as staying out late, fighting and being involved with the police as consequence of his behaviour. Arkam then took on the role as being labelled as a “troublemaker”. And was referred to a children’s panel, because by law under the age of 16 he is covered under certain legislation such as children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 and children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 to ensure that his rights were protected as a child/young person. It was then decided by local authorities e.g. his social worker and the police, to put him in a residential unit to ensure his own protection and others e.g. his mother and siblings to ensure he gets the support he needs with his anger issues. This would have decreased his life chances as society would see Akram as deviant individual because of his behaviour and he is missing out on getting a main stream education to create better opportunities for himself in the

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