SOCIALIZATION: TEXTBOOK ASSIGNMENT

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SOCIALIZATION TEXTBOOK ASSIGNMENT

• THE AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION

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1. How many agents of socialization can you name?

• BRAINSTORM LIST OF STATEMENTS AS A CLASS
• Family
• School
• Peers
• Clubs, social groups
• Work
• Media
• Religion
• Government
• Geography

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2. Family is the most important agent of
socialization because

• Family provides initial love and nurturance
• Transmission of social and cultural values
• Primary source of love and support
• First social experiences happen within families

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3. Hidden Curriculum

• The hidden curriculum means any information or
  lessons learned through schooling that beyond the
  official school curriculum
• The hidden curriculum teaches children to value
  competition, materialism, work over play,
  obedience to authority and attentiveness
• The potential problem is that success in school
  may be based more on a students ability to
  conform to the hidden curriculum rather than by
  mastering formal curriculum

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4. Social Norms and Peer Pressure

• Individuals must earn acceptance from their peers
  by conforming to the groups social norms (dress,
  speech patterns, attitudes)
• In other words when we conform to our peers norms
  we are rewarded by acceptance within the group
• Those who do not conform to this form of peer
  pressure may be socially isolated or expelled
  from the group

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5. Children Also Socialize Parents!

• Socialization is a 2-way process
• Children teach parents about the latest fads,
  clothing, music and language
• Parents may also learn attitudes and behaviors
  about drug use, sexuality, sports leisure and
  ethnic issues from their grown children

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6. Racial-Ethnic Socialization

• Ethnocentrism
• Scholars may be hesitant to point out differences
  in socialization practices among diverse ethnic
  and social class groupings because such
  differences have typically been interpreted by
  others as a sign of inadequate (or inferior)
  socialization practices

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7. Theories of Gender Socialization

• Gender socialization The aspect of
  socialization that contains specific messages and
  practices concerning the nature of being male or
  female in a specific group or society
• Eccles, Jacobs and Harold (1990) Parents may
  respond differently to boys or girls ex playing
  more roughly with boys and talking more lovingly
  with girls
• Seegmiller, Suter and Duviant (1980) less rigid
  gender stereotypes in high incomer families
• Serbin et al (1990) Male oriented toys given to
  both genders in high income families
• Canter and Ageton (1986) Working class families
  adhere to more rigid gender expectations than
  middle class families

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8. The Digital Divide

• Digital divide refers to the distinction between
  those families that can afford a computer and
  internet access and those who cannot.
• A conflict theorist could argue that the internet
  provides a means for those in positions of
  affluence to gain access to information that
  those without the money to cover
  computer/internet costs dont have
• It could also be a way for powerful people in
  society to spread ideas/ use media/ make money

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9. Socialization is a lifelong process

• You are socialized in infancy and childhood by
  families
• In childhood/ adolescence we are socialized by
  our peers and other agents such as school and
  media
• Later in adulthood we learn lessons related to
  socialization in addition to those agents
  mentioned. Consider work, government and even out
  children and grandchildren

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10. Resocialization

• Voluntary Resocialization
• When we assume a new status of our own free will
  (student, employee, retiree, religious
  conversion, medical or psychological treatment,
  rehabilitation)
• Involuntary Resocialization occurs within a total
  institution (under the control of officials in
  isolated conditions). It generally occurs against
  a persons wishes and are stripped of their
  former selves and depersonalized and made to
  adopt a new set of behaviors( Prisons, military
  boot camps, concentration camps, some mental
  hospitals)

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Culture and SocializationPandya and Chispa
experiment

• Objectives
• Students complete a role-play activity and
  analyze the results.
• Students gain skills in observing and describing
  behaviours.
• Students develop an understanding of how our
  cultural values influence the way we view other
  groups.