UCSP

• Socialization


  The process of molding a human infant to a member of society to which he/she belongs
• Man is not only social but also cultural
• Culture


  Provides opportunities for man to develop the personality
• Development of personality is not automatic process
• Socialization


  The social training prescribed by a society for its new born members so that they may develop their own personality
• The process of socialization is conditioned by culture
• The ways of the process of socialization differ from society to society
• The same culture and the same ways of socialization may have diverse effects on the development of the personality of the members of the same society
• Socialization


  The process of working together of developing group responsibility, of being guided by welfare needs of others
• Socialization


  The process whereby men learn the rules and practices of social groups
• Process of socialization


  1. Starts long before the child is born

  2. Begins after birth
• Suggestion


  • The process of communicating information which has no logical or self-evident basis
• Imitation


  • Copying by an individual of the actions of another
• Identification


  • The child comes to know the nature of things which satisfy his/her needs and gradually identifies what he/she needs for happiness in life
• Language


  • The medium of social intercourse and the means of cultural transmission
• Agents of socialization


  • Family
  • Peers or age-mates
  • Teachers
  • Literature and mass media of communication
• Primary socialization


  The most essential and basic type of socialization that takes place in the early years of life of the new-born individual
• Anticipatory socialization


  Learning the culture of groups to which one does not belong
• Developmental socialization


  Learning based on the achievements of primary socialization, building on already acquired skills and knowledge as the adult progresses through new situations
• Re-socialization


  The process of changing roles within groups or changing membership groups, often when a social role is radically changed or during periods of rapid social mobility
• Types of power in the family

  • Patriarchal
  • Matriarchal
  • Equalitarian
• Political science


  A social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government, and politics
• Power


  The capacity of an individual to influence the actions, beliefs, or conduct (behavior) of others
• Power


  The ability to achieve desired ends despite resistance from others
• Elements of power


  • Micro politics (individual and group power)
  • Macro politics (exercise of power over a large group)
• Legitimate power


  Power that people accept as right, also called authority
• Illegitimate power


  Power that people do not accept as just, also called coercion
• Major types of power

  • Expert
  • Referent
  • Reward
  • Coercive
  • Legitimate
• Authority


  Power that people perceive as legitimate rather than coercive
• Society


  • Not adequately defined by physical groupings alone, it has a psychological basis as well
  • The source of immense social power is people