The Negative Effects Of Socialization

Socialization is predominately a cataleptic development through which a new-born individual adapts to the values, rules and norms of the society or internalizes the culture in which it is innate to. There are many agents of socialization however this essay will examine how an individual is socialised from by Education, Media and Family.

MEDIA

With the exposure to more computer, televisions, and digital gaming programs, children tend to have less time for socially engaging with other children, they fail to give proper recognition to their emotions as they do not have much of platform to exercise this. This leads to ineffective social skills as an impromptu to socialisation. “These children have difficulties related to pragmatics and often misinterpret

For example, since the rates of remarriages are high, children are exposed to step parenting. Families are no longer classified under the nuclear family sociologically because of the absence of parents and their biological children. This is a negative effect in the development of an individual to some extent because the individual is therefore exposed to two different external forces and both expect positive correspondence from individual not taking into account the difference in the prior and the present marital characteristics. “It can be estimated that one in ten is currently living with a stepparent.” (Rallings,1976). According to Diane R. Kompara step parenting has the tendency of having rules that conflict with each other which then becomes an issue to the developing individual because they are forced to engage with rules that are exotic to them. There are two customs that families impact values, norms and expectations to an individual. They may influence them directly and indirectly. Parents directly teach their children values. This comprises of educating the child on what’s right and wrong, religious beliefs, educating them about interrelating with other people, and rules and expectations of the society on them. Indirectly, parents instruct and socialize the individual by performing the particular act that they want the individual to gasp and learn. The individual will watch his or her

It also prepares an individual to fulfil his/her membership in the society is sustained and continues to exist. However, this is from a functionalist perspective. According to Haralambos, the associates of a society must be able to complete particular activities so that the society runs effectively and proficiently. If one can understand that education is the passing down of knowledge and wisdom from the one generation to the other, then it is easier to examine education away from schooling. From the conflict perspective one may see education as a form of oppression of societies and its members. For example, the Bantu education Act, act number forty seven of 1953, which mandated the division in education according to race. Conveyed the whites as the bourgeoise and the blacks as the protestants. One may question the quality of education which was provisioned to the black students compared to the white students. The quality of education that was given to black students was inadequate but was rather appropriates from the oppressor’s perspective to as to preserve power and control over the majority which was the blacks and the