Responsible for youth & determining one's attitude towards religion & establishing a career.
teaches us core elements of socialization
the MOST important socialization agent
Source of primary socialization
Provides you with cultural capital
Secondary Socialization
Provides a "hidden curriculum" in Norms, Values, and Beliefs
You are exposed to peer groups in school for the first time
Places where people are totally cut off from the outside world
Term coined by Erving Goffman
ex. Military, boarding schools, psychiatric institutions
residents undergo re socialization, where their environment is carefully controlled to encourage them to develop new sets of norms, values, and beliefs.
Peer groups- social groups whose members have interests, social position, and usually age in common
Social Prescriptions - Behaviors that were expected of people in peer groups
As you get older, peer groups have a massive impact on the socialization process.
We do not just pick peer groups based off of our traits, as they help mold what traits we end up with.
the media you consume are a large part of your socialization
Mass media is a large part of american life
how we consume our media is affected by race, class, and age
There are connections between excessive tv in early childhood and cognitive, language, and social emotional delays
Definition - the means for delivering impersonal communications to a vast audience
Allow children to subconsciously deal with their fears
Socialization lessons in fairy tales are indirect
children identify with the "hero" of the story rather than the good or bad side
Simpler way to show little kids the structure of the world in a way they can understand without all of the complexities.
Prominent themes are love, fear, death, isolation, and abandonment