The Causes And Factors Of Socialization Among Humans

Since I was young, there was a communication barrier that existed between me and the outside world. My shyness led me to many downfalls on my academic side. Not understanding a topic would mean that I would never be able to clarify any questions that were on my mind. Until around 6th grade, I always considered myself introverted; I had the inability to blend in with strangers, peers and teachers.

My freshmen year, it took me a while to start talking to new people because I was super shy. However, due to my performance in my races, people started to learn my name and actually reached out to me to get to know me. Therefore, I began to become familiar and more comfortable with the members on my team. I decided that I needed to do the same and connect with others my sophomore year. To do so, I started to join various school clubs and attend my church’s youth services, where I met new people. Now my peers see me as a “social butterfly”.

Social work has long recognized the relationship between the behavior of an individual and the environment in which the individual interacts (Hutchison, 2008). Human behavior theories offer a framework to organize, interpret and understand this relationship (Hutchison, 2008). For this case study, the following three theories will be examined for relevancy: Life cycle theory, role theory and resiliency theory.

Social anxiety is fear of communication with other individuals and it may bring feelings of self-consciousness (Kashdan, Farmer, Adams,

A few years ago, I struggled when interacting with other people. At family gatherings, I avoided talking to my relatives and my knees shook when I had to give any sort of presentation in school. I have been trying to overcome this for years, starting with when I began volunteering at Sunday school at my church. At first, I felt out of place and awkward around the boisterous young children who I was supposed to be helping. After a few months, however, things started to improve. Now, I enjoy making crafts and singing songs with the preschoolers at church. This, in my eyes, is the function of an organization like National Honor Society. I

There are people who on the outside are not sociable, because these people are shy. However, there is a difference between shyness and introversion. Shy people often avoid many things because they are nervous or they criticize themselves for speaking up. Introverts, however, will not be nervous or criticize themselves. Both shyness and being introverted are acceptable traits. It only becomes a problem when a person has a social anxiety disorder that significantly interferes with a person’s life. We want and need people to be the quiet thinkers who can go off by themselves come up with an idea and bring it back to a

I love the quote by Ezra Taft Benson, “Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.” That quote rings true to me, and has throughout all my life. When I was young, I suffered from such severe social anxiety that even talking to close relatives was terrifying. The anxiety was so severe that my mother nearly brought me into therapy. But one day, she drew a diagram for me. This diagram had a circle in the center labeled “comfort zone"; it explained that when we push out of our comfort zone, we expand our previously little comfort zone into a greater one. I took this principle to heart at a young age, and started pushing myself socially to expand my comfort zone. Even saying hello was a monumental success

The desire for social acceptance is a desperate attempt to become happy. It can be painful for many people (but not all) to live alone and spend hours imagining going out with a social circle that doesn't exist. It kills your productivity as you feel your life lose its vigor, pep, and color. The pain of being alone is so great that being accepted by a social group, no matter how superficial the relationship may be, is so worth it to most people. As we gain stressful positions of responsibility and heavy tasks, sometimes having an acquaintance that cares (or at least you think they do) can keep you resilient. However, when it comes down to minority groups social acceptance can be hard to come by.

Growing up an introvert was hard; I would always be the kid who sat in the back and kept her head down waiting for class to end trying to skip out on having to share. Everything about speaking to groups of people was slightly terrifying for me. Whether it was reading my answers out loud in class or even presenting a project to a crowded room it would cause me to have anxiety. I was always like this until my senior year of high school. Senior year truly helped me break out of my shell.

Naturally, I am a kind of person who have some types of introvert personalities. I find it difficult to interact and mingle around with a group of people. I always prefer to do things by myself. The moment I started school in Richland for about a year, I have realized that my behavior has completely changed due to the group assignments and discussions that we together. Most of the courses that I have taken too have helped me a lot. I can now interact and share ideas with the other students.

In 2007-2008 youth offending rates were four times more than from people over 19 and are consistently higher than persons over 25 (K. Richards, 2011) .

I was not always a social and outgoing individual and I considered myself unlucky in life. I never stood out and did not have enough confidence to attempt to

Cognition plays a very important role in a person’s life. Cognition can be simply put as the mental capacities, associated to how humans can acquire, store, and retrieve information. In other words, cognition can be portrayed as something a person can recognize, understand, and feel. During class, we came across Dorothy Dinnerstien’s seven features of human cognition, which are; motivated, flexibly focused, structured, layered, affectively tinged, self-reflective, and social which has helped us understand the impact of cognition on our daily lives. We have seen illustrations of these seven features by watching the movies; The Wild Child, The Pawnbroker, and Dr. Strangelove and by reading the articles “On Memory and Childhood Amnesia,” “The Transformation of Man”, and “Reflections: Prologue of Our Time.” By watching those three films and reading those three articles, we have come to realize the influence of socialization on our development as a human being.

Agents of socialization in short are the people, groups, and social institutions, as well as the interactions within these groups that influence a person’s social and self-development. Agents of socialization are believed to provide the critical information needed for children to function successfully as a member of society. Some examples of such agents are family, neighborhood, schools, peers, religion, sports, the workplace, and especially the mass media. Each agent of socialization is linked to another. For example, in the media, symbolic images affect both the individual and the society, making the mass media the most controversial socialization agent. One of the most obvious places agents of socialization lay is in the malls of

Symbolic interaction offers a dramaturgical perspective of how people identify and create their social self through social interaction. Many social theorist studies social interaction/ self as a function to our society. In addition, microsociology develop the idea of applying social interaction on a smaller sample size within the society. Therefore, there were an increase in the study of human interaction and the self. Mead develop his idea through symbolic interaction and social psychology of the human mind. Simmel develop his idea through the perspective of symbolic interaction of urban sociology. Both sociologist focus on the inter social aspect of the human life.