Socialization

Writing Prompt On your own sheet of notebook paper answer the following questions independently. In one life one person can take on many roles. Within those roles are expected behaviors. When you came into school today, you took on the role of a student. What expectations are involved with being a student? How did you come to know what those expected behaviors are?

Guiding Question How do we know what the social expectations of society are and how do they affect us? Lesson Objective: Students will be able to: Identify agents of socialization and how they affect their understanding of social expectations Identify and explain what factors can cause the socialization process to differ from individual to individual Identify and explain gender roles Identify and analyze the affects of gender roles TEKS 6A,B,C 12A 19A 20 A, B, C, D

definitions Socialization= process through which people learn the expectations of society Basis for identity or how one defines themselves Agents of Socialization= those who pass on social expectations

Agents of Socialization Family is the most important How does you family influence your socialization or understanding of social expectations?

Family Loving family produces happy well-adjusted child Parental attention is very important bonding & encouragement Household environment stimulates development Social position race, religion, ethnicity, class

PEERS Peer group How do your peers change your social behavior? primary group composed of individuals of roughly equal age & social characteristics particularly influential during pre-teenage & early teenage years How do your peers change your social behavior?

School Experience diversity Hidden curriculum First bureaucracy Racial & gender clustering Hidden curriculum Informal, covert lessons First bureaucracy Rules & schedule Gender socialization begins Gender-linked activities from grade school through college

Mass media books, films, Internet, magazines, TV; not face-to-face

What do we learn here?

And then there are commercials & ads. What do we learn here?

Criticism about programming concerns regarding race & gender inequality conservative concerns about advancing liberal causes–“politically correct” Violence in mass media

HOMEWORK DUE 12/13 TV and Reality

Gender roles What are women supposed to be like? How are they supposed to act, look, dress, etc? What type of jobs are they supposed to have? What are men supposed to be like? How are they supposed to act, look, dress, etc? What type of jobs are they supposed to have?