UCSP

• Anthropology


  Systematic study of humanity
• Branches of Anthropology


  • Social Anthropology
  • Cultural Anthropology
• Social Anthropology


  Study of human society and cultures through a comparative lens
• Cultural Anthropology


  Study of how people who share a common cultural system organize
• Sociology


  Study of the human behavior within the society
• Sociology


  • Scientific study of a society's origin, development, functions
  • Provides a sociological perspective to understand society
• Society


  Highly structured form of human organization with traditions, values, customs, and laws
• Society


  • Consists of people who share a territory, interact with each other, and have mutual interaction and awareness
  • Characterized by similarities and differences in social relationships
  • Involves cooperation, division of labor, and interdependence
  • Dynamic and subject to constant change
• Social Control


  Mechanisms that regulate individual and group behavior to maintain order in society
• Culture


  Shared characteristics of a group, including their gregarious nature
• Community


  A social group with a sense of belonging and living in a given area
• Community


  • Characterized by some degree of social coherence
  • Involves a group of people living in a given geographic area with common interests
• Sense of Community


  • Membership
  • Influence
  • Fulfillment of needs
  • Emotional connection
• Socialization


  Process by which an individual develops into a functioning member of a group according to its standards
• Socialization

  • Converts a biological being into a social being
  • Contributes to personality development
  • Helps become disciplined
  • Helps enact different roles
  • Provides knowledge and skills
  • Helps develop right aspirations
  • Contributes to stability of social order
• Social Distance

  Helps to reduce and transmit culture
• Stages of Socialization


  • Oral stage (0-1 year)
  • Anal stage (1-6 years)
  • Oedipal stage (3-12 years)
  • Adolescence (from puberty)
• Socialization


  • Promotes human welfare and individual capacities
  • Involves physical, psychological, environmental, and cultural elements
• Agencies of Socialization


  • Family and parents
  • Peer and age mates
  • Teachers
  • Religion
  • Literature and mass media
• Merits of Socialization


  • Conversion of a biological being into a social being
  • Disciplines the individual
  • Contributes to personality development
  • Helps enact various roles
  • Transmits culture
  • Maintains stability
• Demerits of Socialization

  • Personality disorders
  • Unsatisfactory self-image
  • Antisocial and delinquent behavior
  • Mental illness and suicide
• DEFINITION OF COMMUNITY

  "A social group with 'we feeling' and living in a given" area. - Bogrdus

  "An area of social living marked by some degree of social coherence" - RM Maclver
• IMPORTANCE OF SOCIALIZATION

  1. Socialization converts man, the biological being into man, social being. 2. Socialization -contributes to the development of personality. -  helps to become disciplined. - helps to enact different roles. -provides the knowledge of skills.

  - helps to develop right aspirations in life. - contributes to the stability of the social order.

  - helps to reduce social distance. - helps in transmission of culture. - provides scope for building a bright future.
• Elements of socialization

  1. Physical and psychological elements of the individual. b) Environment in which he is born. c) Culture - Attitudes, norms, role and performance of social activities