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