BECOMING A

MEMBER
OF SOCIETY
SOCIALIZATION
■A continuing process whereby an
individual acquires a personal identity
and learns the norms, values, behavior,
and social skills appropriate to his/her
social position.
■Its process is very essential because it
teaches us how to behave and act within
our society.
■A life-long, continuous , complicated
process of social interaction through
which an individual learns the
intellectual, physical and social skills
needed to function as a member in the
society.
 Can be described from 2
POV’s
Objective • Refers to the society acting
socialization upon the child.
• The process by how society
Subjective transmits its culture from one
generation to the next and adapts the
socialization individual to the accepted and
approved ways of organized life.
Functions on identity formation of
individuals
Personality and • Through the process of
Role socialization, we develop our
sense of identity and
Development belongingness.

Skills • The much-needed skills such as

Development communication, interpersonal,
and Training and occupational are developed.
 • Individuals are influenced
Values of engulfed by the
prevailing values of social
Formation groups and society

• The socialization process

Social allows us to fit-in an
integration and organized way of life by
adjustment being accustomed including
cultural setting
 • Integration to society binds
Social individuals to the control
mechanisms set forth by
control and society’s norms with
Stability regard to acceptable social
relationships and behavior.
5 Functions on identity formation of
individuals
■Personality and Role Development
■Skills Development and Training
■Values Formation
■Social integration and adjustment
■Social control and Stability
Importance of socialization

Culture

Socialization
is vital to:
Sex role
differentiation Personality
 AGENTS OF
SOCIALIZATION
■ Refers to the social groups or social
institutions that play a significant role in
introducing and integrating the individual
as an accepted and functioning member of
society.
■ Guides every individual in understanding
what is happening in our society
AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION
MASSFAMILY
MEDIA

SCHOOL

WORK
PLACE

CHURCH
PEER
GROUP
 SOCIAL NORMS

-Usually in a form of rules or

prescriptions followed by people who
obey certain standards or roles in society.
-Includes society’s standards of morality,
good manners, legality, and integrity.
SOCIAL NORMS
-These are the customary patterns that specify what is socially correct and proper in everyday life
- -Repetetive or the typical habits and patternd of expected behavior followed within a group of community

-Define what is morally right and morally wrong

FOLKWAY
S

MORES

LAW
Peter Worsley- values are general
conceptions of “the good” , ideas about the kind
of ends that people should pursue through out
their lives and through out the many different
activities in which they engage.
-Values such as fundamental rights, patriotism,
respect for human dignity, rationality, sacrifice,
individuality, equality , democracy etc. guide our
behavior in many ways.
Hence, values are relative according to its context.
MAJOR VALUE
ORIENTATIONS
OF MANY ACHIEVEMENT AND
SOCIETIES SUCCESS
By Robin William
ACTIVITY AND WORK

MORAL AND
ORIENTATION

HUMANITARIANISM

EFFICIENCY AND
PRACTICALITY
 AND
SEC
JAIME URI
TY
BULATAO,SJ IN
THE
FAM VALUE
STUDY ABOUT AUTHORITY
ILY
FILIPINO
VALUES
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
BETTERMENT

PATIENCE, SUFFERING, AND ENDURANCE

SOCIAL STATUS

■Refers to the position of an

individual occupies in the
society and implies an
array of rights and duties.
 CLASSIFICATION
OF SOCIAL STATUS
ASCRIBED ACHIEVED
STATUSESTO THE
-ASSIGNED STATUSES
-ACQUIRED BY CHOICE,
INDIVIDUAL SINCE MERIT OR INDIVIDUAL
BIRTH. EFFORT
-INVOLVES LITTLE -IT IS MADE POSIBLE
PERSONAL CHOICE THROUGH SPECIAL
LIKE AGE AND SEX ABILITIES OR TALENTS,
-CARRIES WITH IT -CHOICE IN
CERTAIN OCCUPATION,
EXPECTATIONS OF MARRIAGE, JOINING
CONFORMITY AND DEVIANCE
■ Erving Goffman tried to show how certain social
processes modify the presentation of self and the
impact of role expectations on the behavior of an
individual.
■ “Everyone is consciously playing a role. When
persons present themselves to others in everyday
interaction, they organize their overt behavior in
such a way as to guide and control the impressions
others form of them to elicit role-talking response
(Panopio, et. Al, 1994 p.99)
■ It is a process of conformity where individuals
attempt to change his/her behavior because of
the desire to conform with defined social norm.
■ Kelman (1958) distinguished between the
different types of conformity: compliance,
internalization, identification, and
ingratiational.
1. Compliance (or group
acceptance)
■ Occurs “when an individual accepts influence
because he/she hopes achieve a favorable
reaction from another person or group.
■ He/she adopts the induced behavior because
he/she expects to gain specific rewards or
approval and avoids specific punishment or
disapproval by conformity” (Kelman, 1958, p. 53)
2. Internalization
( genuine
acceptance of group norms)
■ Occurs ‘when an individual accepts influence because the
content of the induced behavior – the ideas and actions of
which it is composed – is intrinsically rewarding. He/she
adopts the induced behavior because it is congruent or
consistent with his value system.’ (Kelman, 1958, p. 53)
■ Always involves public and private conformity. A person
publicly changes his behavior to fit in with the group,
while also agreeing with others privately. This is the
deepest level of conformity where the beliefs of the
group become part of indivual’s own belief system.
3. Identification ( group
membership)
■ Occurs “when an individual accepts influence
because he wants to establish or maintain a
satisfying self-defining relationship to another
person or group” (Kelman, 1958, p. 53)
■ Individuals conform to the expectations of a
social role, e.g. nurses, police officers.
■ It is similar to compliance as there does not have
to be a change in private opinion.
4. Ingratiational
■ When a person conforms to impress or gain
favor/acceptance from other people. It is similar
to normative influence, but is motivated by the
need for social rewards rather than the threat of
rejection, i.e, group pressure does not enter the
decision to confirm.
■ Nonconformity – would mean deviation from
acceptable social norms which is known as social
deviance.
■ Social deviance- refers to any behavior that
differs or diverges from established social
norms(Banaag, 2012 p. 144)
■ The concept of deviance is complex because
norms vary considerably across groups, times,
and places,
■ What one group may consider acceptable,
another may consider deviant.