Agencies of Socialization

Family
Peer Group
Church
School
Mass Media
Workplace
Gender Socialization

1. Agencies of Socialization

2. Agencies of Socialization are various groups or institutions that play a significant role in the socialization of an individual and in shaping that person’s personality

3. Family Mass Media Church Peer Group School Agencies of Socialization Workplace Gender Socialization

4. The Family

5. plays an important role and has special responsibility in the socialization of a child the most influential group in the child’s life T he Family

6. T he Family

7. The Peer Group

8. informal grouping of two or more members , more or less of the same age, neighborhood, or school is the one agency of socialization not controlled primarily by adults becomes an important reference group The Peer Group

9. The Peer Group

10. The Church

11. The Church provides for the spiritual and moral needs of the child help foster loving and harmonious relations with others in the family, neighborhood, school and the wider community socialization continues as the individual joins church-based oganizations or ministries

12. The Church

13. The School

14. The School help the child to get along with other kids resposible for inculcationg knowledge and skills, which prepare them for adulthood and become productive and effective citizens of the country

15. formal agency of weaning a child from home and introducing them to the society The school

16. M ass Media

17. Mass Media function to inform, entertain, and educate designed to reach a large audience influences our opinion on almost every issue that is sometimes good and sometimes bad

18. c The Workplace

19. The Workplace how one will fare out or work learns to socialize to a company’s norms and values eventually, there is commitment wherein the work becomes a part of the person’s self-identity

20. Gender Socialization

21. from infancy onward, a person is socialized according to age-sex role scripts related to the instutionalized statuses of males and females is an interaction with the family and other agencies of socialization Gender Socialization

22. Sex and Gender Sex refers to the biological or anatomical diferrences between males and females Gender connotes the pschological, social and cultural differences between males and females complex social meanings that are attached to biologal sex

23. are a function of the cultural patterns which prescribe differential expectations and norms for males and females Sex Differences