AGENTS OF

SOCIALIZATI
ON

Saerah Christy D. Bustamante

Speaker/Discussant

Agents of
Socialization
are the persons, groups,
or institutions that
teach us what we need
to know in order to
participate in the
society.

Family

*Family
* It lay down basic sense of self, forming a

persons initial motivations, values and

beliefs
* It gives us ideas about who we are and
what we deserve in life
* It is where the lifelong process of defining
oneself as female or male begins
* It is where we acquire our specific social
position in society

School

*School

* It is the primary agent of

socialization in industrial
societies and function in
different ways

* It has both a manifest function

(intended purpose) and a latent
function (unintended
consequences)

*School
Manifest Function

Latent Function
*

It transmits formal
knowledge and skills such
as reading, writing, and
arithmetic

It exposes children to new

attitudes, values and ways of
looking at the world
* children learn to be a part of a
large group of people of similar
age
* Children learn universality
* children gradually come to
realize that their behavior is
recorded in permanent official
records that will have important
and lasting consequences

*School
*

This includesHidden
all the informal,
unwritten
Curriculum
norms that exist both inside and outside the
classroom
* It aims at training students to be patriotic, to
believe in their countrys cultural values, and
to obey its laws

Peer
Group
Peer Group

* Peer Group
* The term refers to people of

approximately the same social position

and age as oneself

*Its intensity and importance increase

during adolescence and into adulthood

* Peer Group
* It can ease the transition to adult
responsibilities

* It can, however, be a source of harassment

as in the case of bullying

* It offer young people an identity that

supports some independence from their

families

* It offers an alternative status and rewards

system and gives them ways to feel
important and worthwhile

Mass Media

* Mass Media
* These are the various forms of

communication that reach a large

audience without any personal
contact between the senders and the
receivers of the messages
* They include newspapers,
magazines, books, televisions, radio,
movies, videos, and the Internet.

* Mass Media
* They inform us about events
* They introduce us to a wide variety

of people
* They provide an array of viewpoints
on current issues
* They make us aware of products and
services
* They entertain us

Television now the prime

source of information about
the world

* It provides children with an eye of

the world
* It encourage childrens selfdevelopment
* It enables children to view role
models
* It gives children the opportunity to
observe a wide range of occupations

Workplace

* Workplace
* Learning to behave properly

within an occupation is a
fundamental aspect of human
socialization.