Agencies of Socialization

Agencies of Socialization

Agencies of Socialization

◊ are various groups or institutions that play a significant role in the socialization of an individual and in shaping that person’s personality

Family

Mass Media

Church

Peer Group

School

Agencies of Socialization

Workplace

Gender Socialization

The Family

•plays an important role and has special responsibility in the socialization of a child•the most influential group in the child’s life

The Family

The Family

The Peer Group

informal grouping of two or more members , more or less of the same age, neighborhood, or school

is the one agency of socialization not controlled primarily by adults

becomes an important reference group

The Peer Group

The Churchoprovides for the spiritual and moral needs of the child

ohelp foster loving and harmonious relations with others in the family, neighborhood, school and the wider community

osocialization continues as the individual joins church-based oganizations or ministries

The School

• help the child to get along with other kids• resposible for inculcationg knowledge and skills, which prepare them for adulthood and become productive and effective citizens of the country

formal agency of weaning a child from home and introducing them to the society

MassMedia

Mass Media

• function to inform, entertain, and educate• designed to reach a large audience• influences our opinion on almost every issue that is sometimes good and sometimes bad

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The Workplace

•how one will fare out or work• learns to socialize to a company’s norms and values• eventually, there is commitment wherein the work becomes a part of the person’s self-identity

• from infancy onward, a person is socialized according to age-sex role scripts related to the instutionalized statuses of males and females• is an interaction with the family and other agencies of socialization

Gender Socialization

Sex and GenderSex• refers to the

biological or anatomical diferrences between males and females

Gender

connotes the pschological, social and cultural differences between males and females

complex social meanings that are attached to biologal sex

• are a function of the cultural patterns which prescribe differential expectations and norms for males and females