4 Major Agents; Sociology

Four major agents that have influenced my development are family, school, peers, Those major agents are family, school, peers, and mass media. mass media. My family are the ones that have always been there for me. I grew up with my brothers so They influenced me greatly. My parents raised me so they had a great influence on me so I can be the person I am today. I have gone to school all my life. Teachers have been educating me for many years. The school influenced my development my pushing me so I can keep moving forward with my learning to be successful. Peers are another big influencing factor in my life. The people I have around influence my development because you act the way your peers do. So if I was hanging around a group of friends that are immature then I'd act immature and vice versa. The last agent that influences me is mass media. Mass media influences me greatly in terms of the way I dress, look, feel, and approach the media itself. Often times I look to media in order to gain the latest tips and trends on today’s fashion and beauty. It seems as a teenage girl some part of my life revolve around this aspiration to be as beautiful as the girls in magazines, television, and the movies. As a result, I tend to want to wear makeup while continuously buying new clothes to strive for this ideal. It is evident that media has had an ever-growing affect on young teen girls like myself and it will ultimately affect the way we feel about ourselves and how we are portrayed for the rest of our lives.
If the source of the incompatible demands placed upon you is coming from two or more members of the role-set that corresponds to one status, your experiencing either role-conflict or role-strain. How conflicts and strains are resolved depends upon the particular circumstances. In some cases, it's simply decided based upon our own personal preferences, we’d rather do one thing rather than another. But other times we know that it is in our best interests to defer to