4: Socialization Flashcards
the process by which children and adults leam from others skills, knowledge, norms, and values of their society
Socialization
The socialization that we have with our parents, our caregivers, and immediate relatives who have been there for us to provide our needs food, clothing, shelter, love, peace and security
Primary socialization
Happens when we start schooling, then working for the job that we end up to. Our interaction with classmates, co-employees or play friends affect changes in our way of thinking, dealing with people, growing as a mature individual
Secondary socialization
Agents of Socialization
The family
Media
Peers
Religion
Introduces us to the expectations of society.
Family
They may only be virtual means of socialization but children are so hooked with their gadgets today so that they acquire, new language, values, and behaviors from what they read, see and hear.
Media
Influences your beliefs about sexuality, including the likelihood of tolerance for gay and lesbian sexuality.
Religion
Through the teachers and our schoolmates, we are encouraged to think and behave appropriately to the situations or occasions that we are in
Schools
The learning of new norms and values which occurs later in life, when life circumstances change or when people join a new group is. This is socialization that happens in the workplace.
Resocialization
connotes odd or unacceptable behavior, but in the sociological sense of the word, deviance is simply any violation of society’s norms.
Deviance
The regulation and enforcement of norms to maintain social order - an arrangement of practices and behaviors on which society’s members base their daily lives
Social control
enforced to those who violate guidelines.
Rules
The way to enforce these guidelines is called
sanctions
are rewards to those who conform to the norms like an employee who is promoted in his work for working hard.
Positive sanctions
are punishments for violating norms like arresting a person for shoplifting.
Negative sanctions
