EL101

• socialization process that molds a baby into a social person in society
• social control is necessary . When an individual comes to the new world faces many social problems
• Socialization is a continuous and lifelong process till the end of life
• An individual learns language, culture, values, norms, attitudes, and behaviors which molds his/her personality and becomes a social being - Socialization
• family’s primary function is to reproduce society, both biologically through procreation and socially through socialization
• neighborhood is a geographically localized community within a larger city, town, or barangay. It is composed of groups sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, traditions, and law
• Neighborhoods are often social communities with considerable face-to-face interaction among members.
• community is a group of interacting people, living in some proximity
• Education is the process by which society transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills, customs, and values from one generation to another.
• The sociology of education is the study of how public institutions and individual experiences affect education and its outcomes
• A peer group is a social group whose members have interests, social positions, and age in common.
• This is where children can escape supervision and learn to form relationships on their own. The influence of the peer group typically peaks during adolescence.
• peer groups generally only affect short-term interests unlike the family, which has long-term influence
• mass media has enormous effects on our attitudes and behavior, it contributes to the socialization process
• Mass media is the means for delivering impersonal communications directed to a vast audience
• The term media comes from Latin meaning, “middle,” suggesting that the media’s function is to connect people. Since mass media has enormous effects on our attitudes and behavior, notably in regards to aggression, it contributes to the socialization process.
• Media bias refers the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media. Bias exists in the selection of events and stories that are reported and how they are covered.
• Media Bias The reason for these types of bias is a function of what the public wants to watch and/or what producers and publishers believe the public wants to watch.
• workplace performs its socialization process through onboarding, through which employees acquire skills to adjust to their new role
• Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that relate humanity to spirituality and moral values
• Sociology of religion is the study of the beliefs, practices, and organizational forms of religion, using the tools and methods of the discipline of sociology
• A total institution is a place where a group of people is cut off from the wider community and their needs are under bureaucratic/governmental control.
• Resocialization is a process in which a person is taught new norms, values, and practices that foster their transition from one social role to another
• Resocialization can involve both minor and major forms of change and can be both voluntary and involuntary
• Resocialization differs from the formative, lifelong process of socialization in that the latter directs a person's development whereas the former redirects their development.
• Sociologist Erving Goffman defined resocialization as a process of tearing down and rebuilding an individual’s role and socially constructed sense of self
• Resocialization can also be defined as a process that subjects an individual to new values, attitudes, and skills defined as adequate according to the norms of a particular institution, and the person must change to function adequately according to those norms
• Resocialization is also necessary among people who have never been socialized from the start, such as feral or severely abused children. It is also relevant for people who haven't had to behave socially for long periods, such as prisoners who have been in solitary confinement.
• a total institution is one in which a person is completely immersed in an environment that controls every aspect of day-to-day life under a singular authority
• Culture is learned. It is not biological; we do not inherit it. Much of learning culture is unconscious.
• Culture is shared. Because we share culture with other members of our group, we are able to act in socially appropriate ways as well as predict how others will act
• Culture is based on symbols. A symbol is something that stands for something else. Symbols vary cross-culturally and are arbitrar
• Culture is integrated. This is known as holism, or the various parts of a culture being interconnected.
• International Culture refers to cultural traits that extend beyond national boundaries.
• Culture is dynamic. This simply means that cultures interact and change. Because most cultures are in contact with other cultures, they exchange ideas and symbols
• National Culture. On the contrary, national culture is the beliefs, behavior patterns, values, cultural traits, and institutions shared within a country
• Subcultures, another level of culture, are smaller groups of people who share cultural traits and patterns within the same country.
• Discoveries and inventions, which may originate inside or outside society, are ultimately the sources of all culture change
• Unconscious Invention In discussing the process of invention, we should differentiate between various types of inventions
• Intentional Innovation Some discoveries and inventions arise out of deliberate attempts to produce a new idea or objec