Socialization

1. Socialization Understanding behaviour in Society

2. Socialization • Process when someone learns the attitudes, values, and behaviour that are valuable and necessary for society • Starts in childhood, taught by caregivers • Influenced by parents, friends, school, work, media, gender, religion • Teaches people to behave differently in different situations

3. Social behaviour • Observable responses to external and internal stimuli • Interaction among members of a group • Observing how others behave provide you with clues as to how you should behave

4. What Influences Behaviour? • Family • Gender • Culture • Media

5. Social influence • The effect other people have on a person’s thoughts and actions • Can effect people directly or indirectly • Example: your decision to date someone in based on what you think will be your reactions from family or friends or avoiding dating a specific type of person because of the real or imagined family pressure

6. Gender • How we behave is determined by the role given by the society in which we live in • Internalization is the process by which male and females embrace or accept these gender roles and part of their identity • Qualities such as strength, power, wealth, sensitivity, nurturing, etc. • Gender is a social construct or created by society • Gender influences the way your see view yourself, how you view the world, how you behave in the world

7. Third Gender- Intersex • Someone who was born with both male and female sexual characteristics and organs. • People who do not define themselves as completely male or completely female either because biologically they are both, or because their identity differs from their assigned biological sex.

8. Culture • Each culture has characteristics and traditions which make it unique • May include simple or elaborate symbols and values, rituals, practices • History and law influences a country, society, culture • People are influence by culture, and can be influenced by more than one culture • Multiculturalism influences us in numerous ways

9. Media • Media influences social behaviour – “bang, bang” • Facebook improves relationships ???- people benefit from social media networks • Conveys social norms, expectations, ideals, values- Acceptable

10. Socialization • Think and act like me • Acceptable and unacceptable behaviour • Socialization is the process by which individuals: • Learn behavioural patterns • Skills • Values • Self-esteem/confidence • Identity

11. Categories of Socialization • Primary Socialization • The process of learning the basic skills needed to survive in society • Hygiene, eating with utensils, language, dress • Secondary Socialization • The process of learning how to behave appropriately in group situations • Schools, churches, sports

12. Anticipatory Socialization • “The process of learning how to plan the way to behave in new situations.” • “Using prior to knowledge to assess new social settings.” • Examples: clothing, language, behaviour for events-weddings

13. Resocialization • “The process by which an individual learns to transform old, sometimes unacceptable behaviour into new, socially acceptable behaviour.” • Behavioural Modification theory • Criminals, military

14. Abnormal Socialization • “Ideally children should be raised in a nurturing environment that promotes physical, emotional, and intellectual development.” • “Children need attention, encouragement, and stimulation of a caregiver to develop healthy and become productive, well ad-justed members of society.” • “Children who are abuse, neglected or abandoned at early ages suffer devastating psychological and social disturbance as these years are crucial to learning and social behaviour.”