1. Socialization

2. 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?

3. 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

4. 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

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

6. 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

7. 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?

8. 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

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

10. What do we learn here?

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

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

14. HOMEWORK DUE 12/13
TV and Reality

15. 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?