RACIAL SOCIALIZATION

AND ETHNIC RELATION

Rhyshel Fuentes
Kathreen Lyka Marasigan
Marjorie Armendez
James Roi So
Human infants are born without
any culture
 The general process of acquiring
.  culture is referred to as

  socialization
During socialization, we learn the language
of the culture we are born into as well as the
roles we are to play in life. We also learn and
usually adopt our culture's norms through the
socialization process. 
  Norms
The conceptions of appropriate
and expected behavior that are
held by most members of the
society. 

While socialization refers to the general process of

acquiring culture, anthropologists use the
term enculturation for the process of being
socialized to a particular culture. 
Socialization

Important in the process of personality formation

 While much of human personality is the result of

our genes, the socialization process can mold it
in particular directions by encouraging specific
beliefs and attitudes as well as selectively
providing experiences.  These very likely
accounts for much of the difference between the
common personality types in one society in
comparison to another. 
 Successful socialization can result in
uniformity within a society

If all children receive the same

socialization, it is likely that they will share
the same beliefs and expectations. 

This fact has been a strong motivation for national

governments around the world to standardize education
and make it compulsory for all children

Deciding what things will be taught and how they are

taught is a powerful political tool for controlling people
Large-scale societies, such as the United States, are
usually composed of many ethnic groups.

As a consequence, early socialization in different families

often varies in techniques, goals, and expectations

--it is more acceptable to be different in

appearance, personality, and actions in such large-
scale societies.
SOCIALIZATION PROCESS
Aggregation

By aggregation is meant
the collection or massing
of individuals, the coming
together of the population.
There are many causes for
human aggregation, most
of which are also common
to animal societies.
Communication

the expression of wants and desires

by individuals to each other sets in
motion psychical currents which are
veritable social causes in the sense
that they produce results in social
phenomena. Through communication
different individuals come to have like
feelings and ideas
Association

in general apply to all acts of socialization, still

there is a particular use to which it properly
belongs. People may be collected in a body and
communicate with one another without having
community of residence, but permanent
association can scarcely take place without it
Cooperation

acquired the habit of working

together in procuring food and
shelter
Combination

Naturally, growing out of these

cooperative activities combinations of
groups developed in some cases.
While conflicts sometimes arose in
the occasional meetings mentioned
above, on the whole the social feeling
developed was such that normally
there grew up closer relations and
ultimately a combination of the two or
more groups concerned
Organization

begin at once in order to determine

the relations of the two groups, the
conquerors and the conquered, and
fix the status of each for the
advantage of the former
Differentiation

In the processes which we have

described no mention has been
made of a phenomenon which
often appears in modern
societies as they grow from
inchoate groups into a real
community
Intergroup relations
refers to the ways in which
people in groups perceive,
think about, feel about and
act toward people on other
groups
Intergroup relation are
influenced by the social
identities and perceptions
of groups that individual
group members hold
The potential problem for intergroup relations lies
in the overarching tendency human beings have
for social categorization. Because of the
perceptual tendency to divide the world into
separate categories (i.e., social categorization),
identification with one group rather than another is
almost inevitable
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