SOC413 Week 2

Agents of Socialization 1

Agents of Socialization
SOC413-Week 2 IP
Curtis Crawford
January 20, 2013
Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts

Agents of Socialization 2
Abstract
Socialization is the way people interact with one another on a daily basis. Humans interact in many ways on the phone, the internet, through the mail, and in person face-to-face. There are several agents to socialization; three of them are family, religion, and the workplace. All of these social roles are portrayed in a different light, and as life situations change social roles change. Things that can change a social role are a person going from being single to married, having a first child, being a rehabilitated drug user, or a change in religion or job.

Agents of Socialization 3 There are several agents of socialization; three of them are family, religion, and the workplace. Family is the most important of the social agents. A persons coming into society can be a negative one or a positive one and it begins with the relationships that person has at home. A person who is loved and nurtured at home is more than likely to grow into a loving and nurturing person and a productive person in society. A person who is neglected and not cared for at home has a greater chance of being a negative part of society. (Brinkerhoff, White, Ortega, and Weitz, 2011) A traditional family consists of a mother, father, and one or more children. More families are raised by a single parent, and in some of those homes the single parent is a male. The effects of a child growing up in a single parent home are low