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Human infants are born without culture and must be socialized by parents, teachers, and others in their society. Socialization is the process of acquiring the language, norms, roles, and beliefs of one's culture. It occurs through enculturation, where one learns the specific culture they are born into. Successful socialization results in members of a society sharing beliefs and expectations, which motivates governments to standardize education to assure acceptance of societal norms. Socialization begins at birth and continues throughout life as new roles are learned.
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- 2. SOCIALIZATION • Human infants are born without any culture. They must be transformed by their parents, teachers, and others into cultural and socially adept animals. The general process of acquiring culture is referred to as socialization . During socialization, we learn the language of the culture we are born into as well as the roles we are to play in life.
- 3. • For instance, girls learn how to be daughters, sisters, friends, wives, and mothers. In addition, they learn about the occupational roles that their society has in store for them. We also learn and usually adopt our culture's norms through the socialization process.
- 4. • Norms are the conceptions of appropriate and expected behavior that are held by most members of the society. • While socialization refers to the general process of acquiring culture, anthropologists use the term enculturation for the process of being socialized to a particular culture.
- 5. • You were enculturated to your specific culture by your parents and the other people who raised you. • Socialization is important in the process of personality formation. • human personality is the result of our genes, the socialization process can mold it in particular directions by encouraging specific beliefs and attitudes as well as selectively providing experiences
- 6. • Successful socialization can result in uniformity within a society. If all children receive the same socialization, it is likely that they will share the same beliefs and expectations. • This fact has been a strong motivation for national governments around the world to standardize education and make it compulsory for all children.
- 7. standard school curriculum to assure a broad acceptance of society's norms
- 8. How are Children Socialized? • Socialization is a learning process that begins shortly after birth. • Early childhood is the period of the most intense and the most crucial socialization. It is then that we acquire language and learn the fundamentals of our culture. It is also when much of our personality takes shape.
- 9. • However, we continue to be socialized throughout our lives. • As we age, we enter new statuses and need to learn the appropriate roles for them. • We also have experiences that teach us lessons and potentially lead us to alter our expectations, beliefs, and personality.
- 10. Enculturation • is the process by which people learn the requirements of their surrounding culture and acquire values and behaviors appropriate or necessary in that culture. • As part of this process, the influences that limit, direct, or shape the individual (whether deliberately or not) include parents, other adults, and peers. If successful, enculturation results in competence in the language, values, and rituals of the culture.
- 11. • Enculturation is related to socialization. In some academic fields, socialization refers to the deliberate shaping of the individual. In others, the word may cover both deliberate and informal enculturation. • It is the process where the culture that is currently established teaches an individual the accepted norms and values of the culture or society where the individual lives.
- 12. • Enculturation is sometimes referred to as acculturation, a word recently used to more distinctively refer only to exchanges of cultural features with foreign cultures. • Acculturation explains the process of cultural change and psychological change that results following meeting between cultures.
- 13. • As enculturation is used to describe the process of first-culture learning, acculturation can be thought of as second-culture learning. • research and theory have primarily focused on the adjustments and adaptations made by minorities such as immigrants, refugees, and indigenous peoples in response to their contact with the dominant majority.