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SOCIALIZATION
SOCIALIZATION A lifelong process of social
interaction through which people acquire knowledge of their culture. Through socialization, people acquire a self-identity, personality, physical, mental, and social skills.
Socialization is a dual process– people socialize us; we socialize others.
Occurs when there has been an extended lapse in socialization.
Isolation, deprivation, extreme non-nurturing.
Childhood neglect, kidnapping, POWs
These isolations produce Anomie
AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION family - primary source of personal
socialization education - impersonal socialization,
transmission of knowledge, also teaches students to be “passive, non-problematic conformists” (Gracey, 1991)
media - transmits messages about the type of people we “should” be; subtle and not so subtle messages
peers workplace- Wilbert Moore’s 4 phases: The “state”
3 PHASES TO SOCIALIZATION:
primary- learning basic skills
secondary- learn new skills and behaviors in order to take on new status
anticipatory- preparing for future statuses and roles
IN ADDITION:
resocialization - process of learning new values, norms and expectations when an adult leaves an old status and enters a new one Examples?
RESOCIALIZATION
total institutions: Place where individuals are cut off from the wider society and where together they lead an enclosed, formally administered life destroy old identity, cut-off
individual from society to meet organizational needs/expectations
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