socialization Flashcards
is a process of molding a human infant to a member of society to which he/she belongs.
socialization
Socialization is a process by which the Individual learns to conform to the norms of the group”.
W.H. Ogburn
“Socialization as the process of working together of developing group responsibility, of being guided by welfare needs of others”.
Bogardus
“Socialization is the process which the child acquires a cultural content, along with selfhood and personality”.
A. W. Green
Explains socialization as the process of “transmission of culture, the process whereby men learn the rules and practices of social groups”.
Peter Worsley
the process of attempting to change the behavior of the learned.
Suggestion
s copying by an individual of the actions of another.
Immitation
The child cannot make any distinction between his organism and environment.
Identification
Is the medium of social intercourse.
Language
It is the means of cultural transmission.
Language
The parents are the first persons to introduce to the child the culture of his group.
Family
means groups made up of the contemporaries of the child, his associates in school, in playground and in street.
PEER GROUPS
It is in the school that the culture is formally transmitted and acquired, in which the lore and the learning, the science and art, of one generation is passed on to the next.
Teachers
This is the most essential and basic types of socialisation. It takes place in the early years of life of the new-born individual.
PRIMARY SOCIALIZATION
Men not only learn the culture of the group of which they are immediate members. They may also learn the culture of groups to which they do not belong.
ANTICIPATORY SOCIALIZATION
It builds on already acquired skills and knowledge as the adult progresses through new situations such as marriage or new jobs. These require new expectations, obligations and roles.
Developmental socialization
Not only do individuals change roles within groups, but they also change membership groups. Such re-socialization takes place mostly when a social role is radically changed. It may also happen in periods of rapid social mobility.
re-socialization
