Agents Of Socialization Analysis

The purpose of this essay is to identify socialization, contributions to socialization and the agents of socialization. Socialization? Socialization is the process an individual goes through from the day they are born to the day they die.

Sigmund Freud, Jean parget, Lawrence Kohlberg, George Herbert Mead and Charles Horton Cooley all contributed to socialization. Sigmund Freud talked about human personality, he said there are three parts of a human personality. First one being the Id (wanting needs to be satisfied and wanting it immediately), second one being the ego (wanting wants to be satisfied but has patience to wait until they can get it). The third one being the super ego (morality is involved, make own decision and face the consequences

They are the cultural institutions and people involved in socialization. There are four agents of socialization. The peer group, mass media, school and family. These four are the most important factors because they have triggered my spiritual, moral and physical growth.

The family is one agent that has the greatest impact on an individual’s attitude and behavior. If an individual was brought up in a decent upbringing home he or she would be on the street breaking the laws regulation but more of aspiring to become someone in the case of Russel Hyde, 45 year old who was shot to death reported in the Amandala Newspaper on September 2, 2015 was an individual who grew up in a unstable home whereas his father would show him and his siblings how to kill and slater animals mainly cattle’s. As he grew up he used the skills he learned from his father to kill and torture individuals he envied or did him wrong.

Another agent is school in which individual learn about respect and manners in the work field , decide a career, and gets educated about the world using facts. Allen Sharp, Kaina Martinez and Mark Anderson are athletes that had gotten the opportunity to go abroad reported in the Reporter Newspaper on July 12, 2015 it was only their skills that far but respect, and manners was also what got them that privilege to

That is, when we still are children, we interpret ourselves as well as the society through our eyes and understanding from what our family members such as parent, elder brother and sister doing. Thus, family can be say as act as an aid that helps a child to fit into the social culture. In order to help a child to fit into a healthy social culture, family should act as a good aid. Good aid, for example, may involve good image and attitude.

For instance, father must be responsible and mother must be caring. However, as a responsible and caring parent is not enough, some unhealthy behavior must also avoid from the children. For example, when you addicted to smoke but you must not smoke within the sign of the children. Also, if you really enjoy in driving car fast, but you must control yourself when your children are inside the car. By doing all of this, not only allow the children to develop better behaviors but also have a safety and healthy life in the