Social acceptance and Social deprivation of

personality development are two important

factors of environmental factors, which are
described under:
Social Acceptance.
This is an important factor influencing personality development. We
all live in a social group where we expect approval and appreciation
of the members of the group. When a person’s performance
behaviour and role play is according to group expectations, he gets
the approval of the group members. This is an important criteria for
self-evaluation by an individual and it influences his self-concept to
a large extent.

This factor influences people differently based on the importance

they lay on social acceptance. To some people social acceptance
holds no value. They will not be affected by the comments of people
or by the impression people have of them. People who lay
importance on group and who are liked by the group will have a
more friendly and congenial nature than those who are rejected by
the group.

The degree of impact of social acceptance on the behaviour of the

person will depend on two factors: 
 The level of security a person has about his status in the group, and
 The importance he gives to social acceptance.

If a person feels secure of his status, he will act freely and not get
influenced by others. Again, if the person attaches a lot of value to
social acceptance, he will always try to act more to the approval of
the members of the group.

High social acceptance makes people more outgoing, flexible,

daring and active than others with moderate social popularity. But
such people, due,to their feeling of superiority are not able to build
close relationships with people. They fail to exude the warmth which
is required for building a close personal relationship. The reason
why these people remain aloof is that they have a feeling of
superiority.

There are people who face social rejection as well, on the contrary.
These people want Social acceptance but people reject them. The
person who faces rejection develops a lot of anger and resentment
against the people who have not shown him acceptance. Such
persons also become depressed, sad and unhappy.

If rejection is faced early in life, the children may become juvenile

delinquents (committing a crime before adulthood) or criminals later
in life. If in early life a child has good social experiences, as an adult
he would be better able to adjust in society and become healthy
social members, otherwise they may become antisocial elements.

Social Deprivation.

Social deprivation is a term used to describe a person who is disconnected

from his or her society and healthy social interaction for a variety of different
reasons. In certain cases, if the social deprivation is chronic, it may affect a
person's personality and interpersonal skills, which can lead
to social exclusion.

This factor has a huge impact on personality development. Those

people who do not get the opportunities to experience social
contacts including, love and affection are called socially deprived.
Such people become socially isolated and it is highly damaging for
the very young and the old people, influencing their personality
adversely. Young children are not able to develop a healthy and
normal personality. They behave in a socially unacceptable manner
and people do not have favorable opinion of them.
What predicts upward social mobility?
The gap between the poor and rich of the world has been widening
over the past few decades. Differences in health between social
classes are becoming greater and the combined effects of social
inequality and low socio-economic status are shown again and
again to have a negative effect on physical, psychological, and
social well-being of individuals. It’s not easy to escape
intergenerational cycles of poverty and low socio-economic status,
particularly when free market ideologies reinforce the idea that
social inequality is a ‘natural’ feature of our societies.

Patterns of social mobility

Several patterns of social mobility are possible:

 Horizontal mobility involves moving within the same status category.

An example of this is a nurse who leaves one hospital to take a position
as a nurse at another hospital.

 Vertical mobility, in contrast, involves moving from one social level to

another. A promotion in rank in the Army is an example of upward
mobility, while a demotion in rank is downward mobility.

 Intragenerational mobility, also termed career mobility, refers to a

change in an individual's social standing, especially in the workforce,
such as occurs when an individual works his way up the corporate
ladder.

 Intergenerational mobility refers to a change in social standing across

generations, such as occurs when a person from a lower‐class family
graduates from medical school.