Socialization

Question 1

Paragraph 2: Influence of the Family

Answer 1

The influence of an individual’s family can have a long lasting impact throughout a lifetime. Family can be defined as any combination of 2 or more ppl bound together over time by ties of mutual consent, birth and/or adoption. There are responsibilities referred to as the 6 universal functions of the family in the process of socialization. These functions include the following:

• physical maintenance and care of group members
• addition of family members through procreation/adoption
• socialization of children (timeline)
• social control of members (discipline)
• production, consumption, distribution of goods and services
• affective nurturance (love)

Question 2

Par 3: The Growing Influence of Social Groups

Answer 2

Many challenges will arise in the process of socialization when an individual reaches adolescence. During adolescence, individuality is increasing important and social relationships are developing outside of the family. Peers and media are agents of socialization that contribute more to a young persons understanding of the world at adolescence; their influence helps to shape and form individual and social values and attitudes. Teens are changed and exposed to a new social reality by all positive and negative factors around them. They confront many personal choices during adolescence that they haven’t faced before this stage in their life. In a social institution such as school, for example, deciding a career path to pursue is a conflicting choice that society expects an adolescent to make. In social groups amount peers, experimenting with drugs and alcohol can also be another decision that is forced upon an individual during adolescence. As a result, the individual will feel conflicted between the influence of the family versus the influence of social groups. Adolescents in particular are extremely vulnerable to being changed by their social groups as they continue to grow apart from their family.

Question 3

Par 4: draw example timeline

Answer 3

Birth, elementary, highschool, post secondary, career, marriage, kids, retire

Child, puberty, adolescence, early adulthood, adult

-if fail to meet expectations, the individual might deviate from societal norms, values, and goals.

Question 4

Par 5: deviance

Answer 4

Types of deviance…

Question 5

Par 6: What I think will help with successful socialization (forming identity)

Answer 5

-family most important in determining how well u function in the society u live in
- socialization will favour some ppl, others will not conform
-if family successful, benefits to society and the individual include:
.happier, stability, low crime, hard working, healthy.
-if unsuccessful in socialization, ppl will demonstrate the opposite of these traits

Question 6

Introduction

Answer 6

In order for an individual to participate in society, he or she must first learn the rules that govern social interaction through the process of socialization. Socialization is the complex process by which we learn to become members of society, by internalizing the values and norms of society and learning the roles we are expected to perform in society. It is a life long process that begins in childhood with the family. The family is often referred to as the primary agent of socialization. School, media, and society in general are important secondary agents of socialization. All agents of socialization, including ppl or social institutions, shape an individual’s social development.