The Importance Of Socialization

While watching Love is All You Need, I was alarmed at how most people treat the gay, lesbians, or even just the minorities in society. It shows that these people have to hide their identities in most situations, just so they are not treated like human beings, or face severe consequences (like being disowned or bullied for life). It’s sad that society does this to these poor helpless people that just want to defy the norms.

The book explains various types of socialization that occurs through schools. There are intentional, formal and implicit socialization. Intentional socialization happens when schools deliberately try to inculcate the patterns that are dominant in the larger society of America into school children. Formal socialization is where schools make children unlearn the initial pattern of behavior learnt at home and socialize them in a different set of socially appropriate behaviors. Some socialization occurs implicitly as the child goes through the school life.

Symbolic Representation: The is the ability to make one thing - a word or an object - stand for something other than itself. Language is perhaps the most obvious form of symbolism that young children display. However, Piaget (1951) argues that language does not facilitate cognitive development, but merely reflects what the child already knows and contributes little to new knowledge. He believed cognitive development promotes language development, not vice versa.

Socialization is the process of how people learn to behave in a society, through many different factors. People use the material they learn from these different factors and they put value and importance to certain things because of these teachings. An individual learns what is normal and accepted in society based on what those factors teach. Family, peers, and media I think are the biggest factors that influence an individuals’ thought about how to treat things like race, gender and social class.

Socialization refers to the process by which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and rules of society and learn to function as members within that community; they learn what society finds acceptable or normal in different situations (Conley 2013). Norms taught to individuals, are in place to maintain standards of behavior. For instance, families teach folkways or customs to children; teaching them not to burp loudly while eating at a restaurant or to not pick their boogers when they are out in public are ways to socialize them. Even though this acceptable for them to do while they are kids, these actions will not be welcomed once they are adults. Doing these things in public can cause people to look at them in disgust or can cause them to be categorized as socially deviant individuals (Conley 2013). In addition, laws put in place by a government are there for individuals to follow because theoretically individuals that live in a nation believe in that country’s values. Drunk driving is illegal in the United States, then it can be assumed that citizens will follow that law because they like the government value their lives and the lives of others.

In the midst of basic socialisation, youths take in different crucial things that they ought to function as they create. These lessons are discovered not simply by direct instructing, like how to scrutinise and make, moreover roundabout by viewing friends and family. Children can get practices, traditions and acknowledge what is ordinary from them through facilitated and underhanded correspondence. Discretionary socialisation can be all the more difficult to recognise or encounter. Exactly when youths are in fundamental stages, they are recognised really whether they get things right or not. When they accomplish the helper organise, that is not the circumstance.

A major role in my life is being a daughter and a student. My parents never had an education and basically worked their butts off just to get a decent meal on the table and a roof over our heads. Therefore, they take education very seriously. They want my siblings and I to go to college and become successful. Of course, I would like to grant their wish since they worked so hard for my siblings and me. However, the pressure is way too hard on me especially at a young age. This is a generalized other because Asians have been stereotyped as being smart in math and science. It has been the “cycle” for growing up as Asians. It will be difficult to get out of that stereotyped cycle (also known as cycle of socialization) since it has been around for many years and Asians tend to listen and obey. Because of the cycle of socialization, I cannot be myself but to be classified under these categories: gender, class, religion, sexual orientation, cultural group, ability status, or age. These categories identify who I am right when I am born. As to in the article, “The Cycle of Socialization”, Bobbi Harro (2010) claims, “Our silence is consent” (p. 50), he means since the socialization cycle has been around for hundreds of years, it will continue to go on because it will be difficult to stop the cycle. Silence is negative because I cannot be myself around others and causes me to lose self-esteem.

Socialization is the process through which people learn about the language, norms, values, and behaviors that are accepted in society. Socialization is important for humans because it contributes to our personality and helps us become better members of society.

The definition of a symbol according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary is something that stands for something else by reason of relationship or association; and can either be letters, pictures, an action, object or event. Symbols are not restricted to pictures or objects, but can include gestures as well as words. Symbol use is necessarily not just for infants, but adults as well and is crucial to the way humans think. Not only does something such as a map serve as a symbol but words such as “wedding ring” can also be seen as a symbol. Therefore, it is clear that language and symbols go hand in hand. The question that arises then is the affect of these two on learning in young children. Many studies have been conducted studying the relationship and affect between language and symbol use in infants. It is understood that “linguistic and symbolic abilities overlap”, but language is far more complex than learning symbols. (Namy, Waxman, 1998) When infants are first learning words, they connect the words they’re being exposed to, to the objects around them. Therefore, “early word acquisition focuses on the symbolic nature of words.” (Namy, Waxman, 1998)

Socialization is the process by which culture is learned; also called enculturation. During socialization individuals internalize a culture's social controls, along with values and norms about right and wrong. Socialization is a complex process that involves many individuals, groups, and social institutions.

The Socialization of my life. This is how I become who I am. My early socialization has been a big role in my life along with my significant others, which includes my parents and friends. My defining moments in my life and the experiences I’ve faced. Also with the media's help I’ve become to understand the simple things. Over the past sixteen years I have learned to become the person i am today all because of socialization.

Political Socialization is described as an individual’s lifelong process by which they form their ideas about politics. People acquire their political orientations commonly from parents, teachers and the mass media. I would say I was influenced by my parents in my political orientation, but as I grew older my political orientation became part of my own. Like a majority of the public, my personal political orientation changed drastically while being immersed in a politically aware school: Southwest. Before going to Southwest, I was secluded in Lake Harriet, which was not a school that was aware of the political and world problems, the students were only aware about their school drama. Mass media and Southwest, common political influencers, both favor liberal ideals and disapprove of conservative ideals have also led me to the path of liberal. My first political memory was when I was in 3rd grade and I was sitting at my friends dining room table talking about the presidential candidates, which is a weird dinner topic for two 3rd graders. We argued about who we both thought would be the best candidate, I argued for Obama while she argued for McCain. I specifically remember her asking me why did I think Obama would make a great president for the United States and I remember telling her that I don’t know much about him except that he is who my parents are voting for. My political orientation was influenced by my parents, just like many of the public, very early in my

Broad socialization is promoting independence and it is a way of self-expression. You are your own person and basically, do not follow any guidelines; a lot like there are not any rules. While narrow is very traditional like, you must do it this way because that is the way it has always been. It is a way to express responsibility, rules, and conformity. Socialization is learning to behave in a way that is acceptable to the community or your society. Different cultures and ethnicities have their own way of expressing how they run their life. Whether it be through the community, work, school, family, media, and religious beliefs they all have multiple ways of carrying out the broad and narrow differences. The difference lifespans that I will be focusing on include infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The gender roles between what a female is able to do versus what a male is able to do is also a big factor because women are truly seen as weak.

Socialisation refers to the process of learning one’s culture and how to live within it. The process of socialisation involves the transmission of culture from one generation to the next. It is during socialisation that individuals learn the values and norms that play such an important part in shaping human behaviour. Socialisation provides the skills and habits necessary for acting and participating within one’s society.

In the last few decades, our society has adopted many social values, beliefs, and norms to set the standard of living. This happens through the transmission of various group affiliations that inform our own personal relationship to one group of our choosing. This statement leads to the question of how a person becomes socialized in their life and is it done through our social institutions? In order to address the issue of socialization, we must understand the individual behaviors that we as a nation exhibit through our constructed self.