CONCEPTS OF

SOCIALIZATION:
IT'S MEANING AND
BIOLOGICAL BASIS
Prepared by:
SHEILA T. SAYSON
  WHAT IS SOCIALIZATION?

 A process beginning from childhood by which

individual acquires the values, habits, norms
and culture of a society
 A process whereby an individual learns to
adjust to a group and behave in a manner
approved by the group
 BIOLOGICAL
BASIS
OF SOCIALIZATION
 Lack of Instinct
 Needs for Social Contact
 Childhood Dependence
 Capacity to Learn
 Capacity for Language
 LACK OF INSTINCT
 Human have reflexes but not instinct,
thus they must learn all that they know
 Reflexes
Is our ability to react automatically
to a certain stimuli
 Instinct
A natural ability that helps you decide what
to do without thinking; behavior that has not
been learned
 SOCIAL CONTACT
 NEEDS
Human needs on social contact is a
strong biological imperative.
 Research shows that lack of social
contact leads to development of
lower functionality.
 Social isolation may result to
loneliness and depressive ability
 CHILDHOOD
DEPENDENCE
Humans are the most helpless of all
creatures at birth, requiring love and care
from other person.
 CAPACITY TO LEARN
Humans have higher level of intelligence
and are capable to learn.
A high level of intelligence is an innate
human biological potential. So, people are
highly educable
 CAPACITY FOR
LANGUAGE
 Gives us the ability to use our reasoning
power and to engage in symbolic and
interaction and communication.
 Humans have innate capacity to acquire
language
 According to Chomsky, humans are born
with a set of language learning tools referred
to as the LAD. The LAD is an abstract part of
the human mind which houses the ability for
humans to acquire and produce language.