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по J Shellenberger 5 лет назад

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Agens of Sociolization

Key agents of socialization, including family, schools, and peers, play a significant role in shaping individuals' norms, values, and beliefs. Family is the primary social unit where young children start their socialization process.

Agens of Sociolization

Agens of Sociolization

Mass Media

introduce people to ideas that reflect society as a whole more.
mass media - means of delivering impersonal information to a vast audience.
Media can influence attitude of the consumer
There are connections between excessive television viewing in early childhood and cognitive, language and social emotional delays.
Media you consume are parts of socialization

Peers

We don't just pick peer groups based on how we are, peer groups help mold us into who we are.
with Coleman's study came Social Prescriptions - Behaviors that were expected of people in those groups
Coleman did study in 1950s that discovered main social groups that people in school identified with. they were nerds, jocks, burnouts, leading crowd.
Peer groups are social groups whose members have interests, social position, and usually age in common.
Children are exposed to pier groups at school

Total Institutions

use rewards and punishments to break down existing personality and build a whole new personality.
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.
Control all aspects of residents lives.
Erving Goffman was the first person to coin the term
Refers to places like the military, prisons, boarding schools, or psychiatric institutions.
total institutions-Places where people are completely cut off from the outside world and have strict rules on how they must behave.

School

by capturing children's imagination and allowing them to explore their unspoken fears, fairy tales help to mold social behaivior
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.
fairy tales teach children that hardships and problems are unavoidable in life, and must be met head on.
parents and schools use fairy tales to help socialize children
schools join families in socializing students in gender
Expose kids to a variety of people to get different view points
Schools have hidden curriculum which is an education in norms values and beliefs
Secondary Socialization

Family

Class Socialization
Race Socialization
Gender Socialization
Source of Primary Socialization
Family is your entire social world when you are young
Socialization begins here