HOW TO BECOME A

MEMBER OF A
SOCIETY
1. DIFFERENTIATE SOCIALIZATION AND
ENCULTURATION.
2. APPRECIATE THE IMPORTANCE OF
NORMS, VALUES AND STATUS IN A
SOCIETY.
3. EXPLAIN HOW AN INDIVIDUAL
BECOME A GOOD MEMBER OF A
SOCIETY.
CHILD LABOR-refers to the illegal employment of
children below 18 years old in hazardous
occupations.
-damage to children’s health, hamper their education
and lead to further exploitation and abuse.
Berry, Poortinga, Segall, and Dasen (2002) define
enculturation as “a form of cultural transmission by which
society transmits its culture and behavior to its members
by surrounding developing members with appropriate
models”

Socialization generally refers to the process of social

influence through which a person acquires the culture or
subculture of his/her group, and in the course of acquiring
these cultural elements, the individual's self and
personality are shaped.
Enculturation
• the process by which an individual adopts
the behavior patterns of the culture in
which a person is immersed

Socialization
It is the process through which people
learn to understand the societal norms,
expectations and values as members of
society.
AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION AND
ENCULTURATION
FAMILY-The first agent of socialization
School -Molds the beliefs, values, and attitudes of the students
through various
academic and social activities
Mass Media- Distribute information to a wide audience, via
television, newspaper, radio
and internet
RELIGION -Exerts a great influence on a person’s view;
legitimizes social practices
Government -Ultimate source of authority
CONFORMITY
a change in belief or

defined as “yielding to group pressures”

-

- type of social influence involving

behavior to fit in or align their attitudes
and behaviors with the people they
interact or socialized with.
TYPES OF COMFORMITY
1.Compliance
2. Identification
3. Internalization
.
DEVIANCE
-it is the recognized violation of cultural
norms. Crime is one example of
deviance which is a violation of norms a
society formally enacts into criminal
law.
SOCIAL CONTROL
is the process of creating and maintaining
stability; in simplest terms, it refers to the
power of society over individuals
QUIZ
THE FIRST AGENT OF
SOCIALIZATION
 GENERALLY REFERS TO THE PROCESS OF SOCIAL
INFLUENCE THROUGH WHICH A PERSON ACQUIRES
THE CULTURE OR SUBCULTURE OF HIS/HER GROUP
 A FORM OF CULTURAL TRANSMISSION BY
WHICH SOCIETY TRANSMITS ITS CULTURE AND
BEHAVIOR TO ITS MEMBERS BY SURROUNDING
DEVELOPING MEMBERS WITH APPROPRIATE
MODELS
IT DISTRIBUTES AN INFORMATION TO
A WIDE AUDIENCE, VIA TELEVISION,
NEWSPAPER, RADIO AND INTERNET
 
ULTIMATE SOURCE OF AUTHORITY
YIELDING TO GROUP PRESSURES
MEANS CONFORMING TO A RULE OR FULFILLING A
DESIRE, DEMAND, PROPOSAL, REGIMEN, OR
COERCION.
 
THE ACCEPTANCE AND INCORPORATION
OF THE STANDARD OR BELIEF OF OTHER
PERSONS OR OF THE SOCIETY BY THE
INDIVIDUAL
 THE RECOGNIZED
VIOLATION OF
CULTURAL NORMS
 IT INVOLVES REINVENTING
THINGS OR LEARNING HOW TO
DO THINGS IN A NEW MANNER
THE PROCESS OF CREATING AND
MAINTAINING STABILITY
 DEFINED AS A STRONG
EMOTIONAL TIE THAT BONDS ONE
PERSON
 DEDICATION TO A PARTICULAR
ORGANIZATION, CAUSE, BELIEF, AND
A WILLINGNESS TO GET INVOLVED
 THINK ABOUT THIS!

THINK ABOUT THIS!

1. WHAT DOES THE PICTURE SHOW?

2. ARE THESE ACTS OF CONFORMITY OR DEVIANCE? IF SO, WHAT IS THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONFORMITY AND DEVIANCE??
?