Agens of Sociolization

Socialization begins here

Family is your entire social world when you are young

Source of Primary Socialization

Gender Socialization

Race Socialization

Class Socialization

Secondary Socialization

Schools have hidden curriculum which is an education in norms values and beliefs

Expose kids to a variety of people to get different view points

schools join families in socializing students in gender

parents and schools use fairy tales to help socialize children

fairy tales teach children that hardships and problems are unavoidable in life, and must be met head on.

fairy tales use black and white instead of shades of grey like the adult world so children can understand real life problems in their own way.

by capturing children's imagination and allowing them to explore their unspoken fears, fairy tales help to mold social behaivior

total institutions-Places where people are completely cut off from the outside world and have strict rules on how they must behave.

Refers to places like the military, prisons, boarding schools, or psychiatric institutions.

Erving Goffman was the first person to coin the term

Control all aspects of residents lives.

in a total institution residents undergo Re-socialization which is where their environment is carefully controlled to encourage them to adopt a new set of norms, values, or beliefs.

use rewards and punishments to break down existing personality and build a whole new personality.

Children are exposed to pier groups at school

Peer groups are social groups whose members have interests, social position, and usually age in common.

Coleman did study in 1950s that discovered main social groups that people in school identified with. they were nerds, jocks, burnouts, leading crowd.

with Coleman's study came Social Prescriptions - Behaviors that were expected of people in those groups

We don't just pick peer groups based on how we are, peer groups help mold us into who we are.

Media you consume are parts of socialization

There are connections between excessive television viewing in early childhood and cognitive, language and social emotional delays.

Media can influence attitude of the consumer

mass media - means of delivering impersonal information to a vast audience.

introduce people to ideas that reflect society as a whole more.