SOCIALIZATION: TEXTBOOK ASSIGNMENT

1. SOCIALIZATION: TEXTBOOK ASSIGNMENT THE AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION

2. 1. Complete the statements. • BRAINSTORM LIST OF STATEMENTS AS A CLASS

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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”

8. 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

9. 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 don’t have • It could also be a way for powerful people in society to spread ideas/ use media/ make money

10. 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

11. 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 person’s 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)