Agents Of Socialization: Norm, Language, And Culture

Socialization is the first means of communication among humans, ‘it is the process by which individuals learn the culture of their society’. There are four agents of socialization; Norm, values, language and culture. A norm is a guide to actions society defines as acceptable and appropriate in certain situations for example young men should not wear a head covering in church or other buildings, this is considered disrespectful in Jamaica. Values is a belief that something is good, it explains what is worth striving for, for example in Jamaica passing G.S.A.T is an achievement at the primary level to get into a traditional or renowned secondary institution, but when looking deeper you would see that certain lessons taught in the primary level is not needed in the high schools nor …show more content…
This might be rough on the primary level child but they could start out with simple easy plants and leave the more tense jobs when they reach the secondary level, this could help a child develop good social and interpersonal skills in the process.
Farmers should communicate with each other, encourage people to come into agriculture, mostly youth, explain that we need agriculture to feed Jamaica.
There should be more advertisements that portray agriculture in a more sophisticated way, for example on the television the only time there is a news about agriculture something negative has happened, either praedial larceny or climate change problems etc., these dilemma will prevent people from being curious and willing to learn and understand what agriculture is all about, we need to give our country’s citizen a positive view on