Becoming a member of society

• Socialization

  • Lifelong process through which people acquire their identities and skills
  • Process of member recruitment and replacement
  • Enables a person to gradually become self-aware and knowledgeable
• Goals of Socialization

  • Develop Conscience
  • Prepares Individual to perform social roles
  • Cultivate Values
• Enculturation

  • Process of being socialized into a specific culture. Individuals learn cultural symbols, norms, values, and language by observing and interacting with family, friends, and the rest of society
• Conformity

  • Involves the acceptance of the cultural goals and means of attaining those goals.
• Deviance

  • Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations or social norms of a group or society.
• FORMS OF DEVIANCE

  • Innovation - rejects the means but still tries to achieve the goal
  • Ritualism - emphasis on means but ignorant towards goals
  • Retreatism - rejecting both means and goals, withdraws themselves from society
  • Rebellion - establish new means and goals
• Social Control

  • Involves teaching, persuading, and or forcing members and non-members of a group to comply with and not deviate from its norms and expectations.
• Human rights

  • Rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status.
• Bill of Rights - refers to natural rights, civil rights, political rights, economic rights as well as rights of the accused before, during and after trial.
• Human Dignity

  • refers to an individual or group's sense of self-respect and selfworth, physical and psychological integrity and empowerment.
• Common good - benefits society as a whole, in contrast to the private good of individuals and sections of society.
• FORMS OF SOCIAL CONTROL

  • Gossip - means to isolate and to punish cheaters/deviants
  • Social Ostracism -Includes ignoring and excluding of a deviant person.
  • Laws - rules of conduct
  • Punishment - consequence which aims to reduce the undesirable behavior