BECOMING A

MEMBER OF
SOCIETY
SOCIALIZATION
and ENCULTURATION
Socialization
- It refers to a lifelong social experience
by which people develop their human
potential and learn culture.
A PROCESS OF LEARNING
AND AQUIRING CULTURE
TO LIVE IN A WAY
ACCEPTABLE TO ONES
OWN SOCIETY.
Family
- is the primary form of socialization. It
teaches you social norms, how you
should behave and act in a way that is
acceptable to society.
Enculturation
- The process by which people learn the
requirements of their surrounding culture
and acquire the values and behaviours
appropriate or necessary in that culture.
IS THE PROCESS WHEREBY
INDIVIDUAL ADAPTS
THE BEHAVIOR
PATTERNS OF THE
CULTURE IN WHICH
HE/SHE IMMERSED.
EXAMPLE :

by observing other members of our

society including our parents, friends,
teachers and mentors.
HOW TO BECOME
CULTURALLY
COMPETENT
 1. LEARN
ABOUT
YOURSELF
 2. LEARN
ABOUT
DIFFERENT
CULTURES
3. INTERACT
WITH
DIVERSE
GROUPS.
 4. ATTEND
DIVERSITY
FOCUS
CONFERENCE
5. INFLUENCE
YOUR
DEPARTMENT
 The development of an
individual’s distinct personality.
The process defines individuals to
others and themselves.
 Identity - defines who you are,
qualities, beliefs, looks.. etc that make
a particular person or group different
from others.
Ex: name, characteristics
KINDS OF IDENTITY
FORMATION
Cultural Identity

- one’s feeling of
identity or affiliation
with a group or culture.

- the beliefs, customs of a particular

society or group
Ethnic identity

- the identification with

a certain ethnicity.

- associated with or belong to a group of

people who have a culture that is
different from the main culture of a
country
National identity

- is a person's
identity or sense of
belonging to one
state or to one
nation.

- It is the sense of a nation as a

cohesive whole, as represented
distinctive traditions, culture, language
and politics.
 Norms

– expectations of how people are supposed

to act, think, or feel in specific situations.
 Values

–important and lasting

beliefs or ideals shared
by the members of a
culture about what is
good or bad and
desirable or undesirable.
 the traditional behavior or way of life of a particular
community or group of people.

They are so customary and habitual that we do not even

realizing we are doing it.
- belching loudly after eating dinner at someone else's home, correct manners of eating, food preferences, use of po and opo, correct
manners, appropriate dressing.
informal rules that are not written,
but, when violated, result in severe
punishments

and social sanction upon the

individuals, such as social and
religious exclusions.
 OTHER EXAMPLES OF MORES
• Normal dress for women at work
excludes clothes that are highly
revealing.
• Stealing is considered
unacceptable under any
circumstance.
• Respect for other people's
property is important.
• Rising for the national anthem is
an expected behavior.
• Setting one's own property on
fire is not socially acceptable.
• Talking while someone else is
talking is considered
unacceptable.
 STATUS
AND ROLES
STATUS

- refers particularly to position in social

structure or any social position that
determines where a person fits within
society.

example : student,teacher,principoal,supervisor,president,
a maintenance worker
 2 TYPES
OF STATUS
Example: gender, color of the Example : honor student,
eyes, race, ethnicity, nurse, doctor.. etc..
ROLES
 is the set of norms, values,
behaviors, and personality
characteristics attached to a
status.

example : being a father, being a mother, being an employee, being a daughter or son, being a friend.
 ROLE STRAIN
- conflict among the roles connected to
two or more statuses.
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