As blooming young adults and students of the mass media, socialization greatly influences growing generations in the United States and how they view themselves as well as others. In a different way, social experiences enforce the morals and social laws of both our culture and those around the world. Chapter five delves deeper into these aspects of American and global socialization by elaborating on the indispensability of socialization and how the mass media, contemporary culture, and society influence people as they grow.
Social experience is essential to normal and healthy development, and there has been much debate over whether human development is a result of nature or nurture; as chapter five explains, most scientists agree that both nature
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As an adolescent, I have always heard the hard-line phrase that once you become eighteen, you are an adult; however, society and family members also tell us that becoming an adult means being responsible, having children, and maintaining a career. Those around myself, even now, tell me to focus on the future of adulthood--get a well-paying job, fall in love, and appear respectable to the rest of society. Consequently, it appears that “adulthood” is measured purely by success. However, with the growth of the internet and diversifying careers, various aspects of adulthood are being stretched to incorporate adolescents as well. For instance, I am below eighteen, but I still earn profit from selling art online; I also have friends younger than 13 that do the same. In effect, adolescents learn adult qualities such as managing money, time, and customers at the same rate that a grown person would in a