3rd (UCSP)

SOCIALIZATION

- process by which we acquire social identities and internalize the values and roles of our social world (D. Llight)

- lifelong process of learning as people move from different stages of growth (Panopio)


FUNCTIONS OF SOCIALIZATION

1. The group transmits its values, customs, and beliefs

2. Enables the individual to grow and develop into a socially functioning person (prepare us for certain role)

3. A means of social control; encouraged to conform to the group’s norms and values

** Socialization can result in uniformity within a society


ENCULTURATION

- people learn the requirements of their surrounding culture; 

- acquire the values and behaviors appropriate in that culture


How are young people socialized?

- period of the most intense and the most crucial socialization

  • Acquire language

  • Learn the fundamentals of our culture

  • Personality takes shape


GEORGE HERBERT MEAD (1863-1931)

  • “Self” (mind) is a sociological concept

  • “Self” develops through social interaction

Formation of the Self (Mind)

  • Child starts with the mimicking behaviors and actions

  • Understanding of the social world through “play and game”

  • begin to function in organized group (generalized others- understand what behavior is expected)


Formal Education

  • School-based learning


Informal education

  • acquires attitudes, values, skills and knowledge from daily experiences


Two General Conclusions

- Socialization practices varied from society to society

- The socialization practices were similar among people of the society.


AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION

- any person or institution that shapes a person’s values and behavior is an agent of socialization

- family, peers, religion, government, media, work, ethnic background,

clubs/social groups, school


1. FAMILY

  • parents serve as the mirror; child begin to see himself and the source of ideas about what is important and what is not


2. PEERS

  • groups whose members are more or less of the same age, sex and rank.

  • stand in the same relation to persons in authority, “see the world through the same eyes”


3. SCHOOL

  • established for the purpose of socializing people

  • teaching them cultural values and attitudes

  • preparing them for their roles as adults


4. CHURCH

  • influences morality

  • a key component in people’s ideas of right and wrong

  • teaches us beliefs about dress, manners and so on


5. MEDIA

  • For many children,, television has become a major agent of socialization

  • children spend more time watching television than in school or in communicating with their parents


Negative Effects of Television Viewing:

- Excessive violence leads to aggression and violent behavior

- Heavy viewing of television in the pre-school years puts a child for problem behavior

- Tv tends to promote sex role stereotypes

- It promotes spectatorship (In everyday usage of viewing on tv)


SOCIAL NORMS

Norms

  • cultural products (including values, customs, and traditions);

  • represent individuals’ basic knowledge of what others do and think that they should do.

  • representations of acceptable group conduct


Consequences of Ignoring Social Norms

- doesn’t have any legal consequences, but can have a major impact on a person’s social life

- can make you as a hero or an outcast

- may result to criticism, opposition, even ostracization