Transcript Socialization - Jessamine County Schools

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 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