SOCIALIZATION SOCIALIZATION A lifelong process of social interaction

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.

SITUATIONAL ISOLATION Occurs when there has been an extended lapse in socialization. Isolation, deprivation, extreme nonnurturing. 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