socialization is a part of the globalization topic in ap10.

2. People and groups that influence our self-
concept, emotions, attitudes, and behavior
Agents of socialization prepare us for our
place in society

3. The most important socializing agent
Studies show that warm, supportive
moderately restrictive family environments
usually produce happy-well behaving
children
Cold, rigid, and overly restrictive families
tend to cause kids to be rebellious,
resentful and insecure

4. Lower-class families tend to be more
authoritarian and strict than middle-class
families
• Parents tend to train children to respect and obey
parental authority
Middle class parents are more permissive
and lenient, emphasizing the value of
independence
• More child centered and sensitive to the child’s
feelings

5. Some neighborhoods are better for
children than others
research shows that children from poor
neighborhoods are more likely to get in
trouble with the law, get pregnant, drop out
of school or end up disadvantaged

6. Religion plays a major role in socialization
Religious especially influences morality but
also ideas about dress, speech, and
manners that are appropriate

7. One of the first tasks at school is to learn to
fit in by getting along with others
• School provides children with their first training in
how to behave
School contribute to uniformity
• Expected to both help children develop their
potential and mold them into social conformity
• The hidden curriculum- trains students to be
patriotic, to believe in their country’s cultural values
and obey its laws

8. Teaches it’s members several things:
• Independent of adult authority
 Create distinct subcultures with own values, jargon,
music, dress, and heroes
• Social skills and group loyalty
• The value of friendship and companionship
• Can also teach members to disobey authorities

9. Research by Patricia and Peter Adler
demonstrates how peer groups influence
behavior
• For boys, norms that make them popular are:
athletic ability, coolness, and toughness
• For girls, norms are: family background, physical
appearance, and the ability to attract boys
• Its almost impossible to go against peer
groups; children who do become labeled
as outsiders, nonmembers or outcasts.

10. Sports- teaching social skills and values
Workplace- learn a set of skills and a
perspective on the world

11. • What does a woman who has just become
a nun have in common with a man who
has just divorced?
• Resocialization is the process of learning
new norms, values, attitudes, and
behaviors to match new situations in life
– Occurs each time we learn something that is
contrary to our previous experiences, such as
going to work in a new job

12. • Erving Goffman coined the term to refer to a place
where people are cut off from the rest of society
and are under almost total control of agents of the
institution
– boot camp, prisons, concentration camps, convents, some
religious cults and some boarding schools
• A person entering the institution is greeted with a
degradation ceremony through which current
identity is stripped away and replaced
• Total institutions are effective b/c they isolate
people from outside influences and information