Socialization The following socialization agents have contributed to my social development: family, nature, nurture, gender socialization, school, peer groups, and mass media. Family has contributed a lot to who I am today. Family has shown me how to behave in public and how to behave at home. It always has shaped my personality. I grew up in a home where my mother didn’t really take care of me and my siblings. I had to mature much quicker than other children and learn how to take care of myself and my sisters. For example, I had to learn how to cook dinner, clean laundry, and get my sisters up for school on a daily basis. This has shaped my personality in a good way. I am more kind and understanding towards others because of this. Nature plays a toll in everyone’s life. It is their biology. It is the genes they get from their ancestors, that make up who they naturally are. Natures toll on me is that my mother has a psychological disorder and my father is what you call “normal”. So there is a pretty good chance that I could inherit the…
Life Event and Agent of Socialization People experience many things throughout their lives that can change or influence them in both positive and negative ways. Many agents affect the way we behave, think, and act in social settings whether we know it or not. Much like events experienced in life, agents can have a positive and negative impact on our day-to-day living. This discussion paper will cover an event that I have personally experienced that has affected my development in some way. I…
Socialization is defined as being a lifelong dynamic process of learning one 's culture. This process starts from the moment of birth, until eventual death. It takes on different forms depending on what part of the world is being studied, which means it is the product of the social construction of reality. As we have seen in class, much like in the case of isolated children, a person that has not been socialized will inevitably die. The important effects of socialization are reflected throughout…
The Effects of Gender Socialization in Children: Impact of Family and Society One of the most important parts of a child’s development, as modern society sees it, is the process of gender socialization. Every aspect of a child’s life, from the color of their bedroom walls, to the clothes they wear, to the way they are treated by adults is in part affected by their gender and the stereotypes that are associated with it. This eventually effects achievement, learning ability, careers, and almost…
Death of socialization There is a common saying that children do have the right to socialize, but the most important question is do they actually get that opportunity? Well, I was beaten and denied of my childhood socialization. I was about ten (10) years old when my social isolation began. There were many rules and regulations implemented in my father 's house, most of them were targeting my freedom of socialization, but the most outstanding one was "Don’t socialize with other people,…
Socialization There are many ways that people view different terms and what they actually mean. Socialization is the action in which people inherit norms, values, and customs providing you with the skills needed for communicating and participating in society. When it comes to socialization many people can view it in all different ways whether it is talking to someone face to face, texting, emailing, writing letters, seeing people in person, talking over the phone, there is a million different…
Agents of socialization is defined as individuals, social groups and institutions that informs us about our culture through family, school, peers, mass media, religion, and work. Expectations are created to create confidence and learning skills. There are a few different process that we all experience growing up and they are family, school, peers, mass media, religion, work, and social groups. Each one influences us on how we socialize with others around us in our society The family is the…
Socialization of Gender The term socialization is the process of learning socially accepted behavior from the society. Socialization is the learning process through which every individual acquire skills and knowledge to live an acceptable life in the society. Those people who failed to cope of with norms and values of society are always alienated from the society. Gender affects the term socialization. Socialization of gender begins from the very early start of childhood. Children are taught to…
Our book gives the definition of political socialization as: The process by which individuals come to adopt the attitudes, values, beliefs and opinions of their political culture. Socialization is the term we give for how our environment shapes our beliefs. Studies show that the process of socialization begins as early as pre-school age. When we are young we are very impressionable and all the things around us in our environment help us to form an opinion(s) about our surroundings and help…
What if you were stuck in your house and never knew how the world communication took place? What if you lost all your socialization skills and had to start from scratch by watching movies? These questions describe a New York City family that did exactly just that. Angulo family had raised their children just in the confinements of their apartment in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The Angulo’s head of the family, their father Oscar, had beliefs in a religion called Hare Kristna that made him…