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• Socialization


  Learning on how our society and specific communities or group works, so we can be a part of them. It's a process of working together in developing responsibility in our community. Individual learns to conform to the norms and values in a group and develops his own self by learning and knowing about his/her own self from others.
• Focuses of Socialization

  • Acquisition of knowledge
  • Language
  • Values
  • Habits
  • Skills in the Society
• Types of Socialization

  • Primary socialization
  • Secondary socialization
  • Developmental socialization
  • Anticipatory socialization
  • Resocialization
• Consequences of Socialization


  • Establishes self-concepts for role taking
  • Creates the capacity
  • Creates the tendency for people to act in socially acceptable ways
  • Makes people bearers of culture
• Goals of Socialization


  • Impulse control and development of a conscience
  • Roles preparation and performance including occupational rules, gender roles, and roles in institutions such as marriage and parenthood
  • The cultivation of sources of meaning, or what is important, values, and to be lived for