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SOCIALIZATION and PERSONALITY. With a Discussion on Major Agencies of Socialization. Ms. Nanette Espina Calaor. Discussion Outline. Define Socialization Define Personality Link Socialization and Personality Link Socialization, Attitudes, and Behaviors
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SOCIALIZATION and PERSONALITY With a Discussion on Major Agencies of Socialization Ms. Nanette Espina Calaor
Discussion Outline • Define Socialization • Define Personality • Link Socialization and Personality • Link Socialization, Attitudes, and Behaviors • Identify Major Agencies of Socialization
Defining Socialization • a lifelong process of learning how to act as a member of a society • FOR EXAMPLE, an infant develops into a functioning social being who is aware of expected behaviors and he/she emerges with a personality
Defining Personality • a relatively consistent pattern of ATTITUDES, VALUES, and modes of PERCEPTION which account, in part, for the individual’s consistency of BEHAVIOR.
Linking Socialization and Personality • Personality is a PRODUCT of Socialization
Linking Socialization, Attitudes and Behaviors • Personality being a PRODUCT of socialization makes attitudes and behaviors as PRODUCTS ALSO of socialization.
Major Agencies of Socialization (The FERGE) • F amily • E ducation (or School) • R eligion (or Church) • G overnment • E conomy (or Market)
FAMILY • the MAIN LINK between the child and society and is the first, closest, most influential social group in one’s life.
EDUCATION • the FORMAL AGENCY for weaning from home and introducing a person into the society.
RELIGION • provides SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE, norms of conduct, and rules of behavior set forth by the religious organization.
GOVERNMENT • regulates behaviors as it REGULATES allocation of labor and industry, reproductive decisions of couples, and public welfare.
ECONOMY • has important implications on habits, skills, knowledge, expectation, motivation, aspiration and ideology.
Adapted from: Isabel Panopio, et al, “Personality and Socialization” in General Sociology: Focus on the Philippines, 3rd edition (Quezon City: Ken, Inc., 1994)