Key Concepts
Agents of Socialization
Socialization Scenarios
100

This is the lifelong process of learning norms, values, and behaviors.

What is Socialization?

100

It is the primary agent of socialization in early childhood.

What is Family?

100

A worker learns the unwritten rules of their new workplace.

What is Adult socialization?

200

These are the rules about behavior that we learn and internalize.

What are norms?

200

This agent of socialization includes influencing identity and behavior

What are Peer groups?

200

Someone joins the military and undergoes basic training.

What is Resocialization?

300

It is the shared beliefs and understandings that society teaches us.

What is culture?

300

This institution is associated with the “hidden curriculum."

What is school?

300

A child learns to say “please” because adults praise them.

What is Socialization?

400

The process of learning new norms because of a major life change

What is resocialization?

400

This agent includes TV, social media, ads, and movies.

What is media?

400

A teenager changes how they dress because of peer pressure. This is the _ agent at work.

What are peers?

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