Agents Of Socialization

By
Steven Glew
Television
 By age 16 most children have watched 10,000 to 15,000
hours of TV
 Aggressiveness in children is positively correlated to
hours of TV. Watch
 In the 1970s 20% of Adults could not perform basic
reading, writing, and computing tasks
 People forget 23 to 36% of the information on TV
minutes after watching it
Education
 In school, children obey the rules
 They do not love the teachers
 They must obey the rules
 U.S. classrooms are considerable less formal than
many classrooms around the world
Soviet Education
 Organized Group Activity is emphasized
 Personal Initiative is looked down a pound
 Rows of seats constitutes a collective
 Each child in the row works as a group
 Groups compete each other to be the best
Resocialization
 Military
 When people join the acquire a new image of
themselves
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Must obey orders
Value group cooperation
 Brainwashing
 Make innocent people confuse publicly to a serious
crime
 Also to change political views.
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Can be done with “kind” tactics lol
Racial Socialization
 Learning ones culture and how to live in it
 Refers more to minorities group
 Can lead to discrimination
 Can also have harmful mental side effects
 Low self esteem
 Depression
 Hopelessness
 Anxiety
 Risk behavior
Family
 Most basic start of socialization
 Foundation for civilized behavior
 Teaches morals
 Body control
 Emotional control
 Lifetime impact to self esteem and identity
Work Cited
 Sociology book
 http://www.sociologycentral.com/text/socl/agentssoci
alization.pdf
 Wikipedia