SOCIALIZAT

ION AND
SOCIAL
GROUPS
Socialization concerns both social
structure and interpersonal relations.
It contains three key parts: context,
content and process, and results.
Context refers to the culture, language, social
structures and one’s position within that
particular society. It also includes history
and the roles people and institutions around
them performed in the past. One's life
context will significantly
affect the socialization process.
Results are the outcome of socialization and
refer to the way a person conceives and
conducts after undergoing this process. For
example, with small children, socialization
exhibits focus on control of biological and
emotional impulses, such as drinking eating
with bare hands rather than eating with
spoon
and fork or asking permission before picking
something up.
 01.
socializatio
n
Socialization simply means the
process of learning one’s
society and its culture. It is
moreover the same as
interacting, mingling and
being with other people or
groups within/ outside of your
society.
Through socialization, one learns the
culture’s language, their roles in life, and
what is expected from them.
1. Family. Most of the habits,
manners, beliefs and the way we
think are develop in the family.
Your family influences you on the
way you behave and act as a
person. This is when socialization
process is crucial and intense.
2. School
It is in the school that your
behavior and attitude are shape
to become a better member of
society
3. Peer Group
Your circle of friends is also
an agent of socialization. It is called peer group.
 Your peers usually have similar ages, social
status and share interests.
 Influences you on the way you can accept
yourself. It is with your peer group that you
find yourself belonged.
4. Social Media
Social media as agent of socialization plays a
crucial role in shaping your personality as well.
Majority of us, young and old, are connected
through social media
 this agent of socialization influences
your way of life intensively thus doing
large part in your personal development.
There are other socialization agents who are
also important in moulding you as a person:
 the community,
 the church and
 the government.
Why is it important for people
to socialize?
Enculturation is the process by which
people learn the requirements of their
surrounding culture and acquire values
and behaviours appropriate or necessary
in that culture.
According to Stephen A. Grunland and Marvin K.
Mayers (1988) (as cited from Hoebel, 1982),
enculturation is both a conscious and an
unconscious conditioning process whereby man,
as child and adult, achieves competence in his
culture, internalizes his culture and becomes
thoroughly enculturated.
As a child lives with his family and the
community, he/she adapts socially accepted
values.
In school, he/she learns to be socially
educated person as he/she observes and
adapts the behavior of other people.
In a community, a person may be
inspired to practice social duties
and obligations as observed and
learned from those who do great
contributions for the welfare of
most people.
A teenager learns to clothe
himself/herself like his/her
friends or in great chances,
adapts how they behave and act.
He / She appreciate the value of
friendship, learn to find joy in
sharing commonalities and
accepts differences in choices
and decisions.
The government upon its imposition
of law refines a person’s way of
living. Through which, he/she learns
his civil rights and exercises them
righteously. Likewise, he/she learns to
respect government policies and
abides to them, knowing that every
action has limitation.
In his/her dealing with religious
affiliations, a person’s belief in
Omnipotent Being is strengthened. This
cultivates the idea that everyone like a
brother and a sister. Thus, respect
towards one another is valued. He or
she learns to respect differences in faith.
Social organizations
Forms of Social Group
Groups are formed as an assemblage of
people who often interact with each other
on the basis of a common outlook
concerning behavior and a sense of
common identity. A social group may
consist of two or more individuals who do
things together with a common goal and
interest.
Group
- is any collection of people who interact on the
basis of shared expectations regarding one
another’s behavior ( Kornblum, 2003).
- is consist of two or more people who are bound
together in relatively stable patterns of social
interaction and who share a feeling of unity
( Hughes and Kroeler, 2009)
Group
- is comprised of two or more persons who are in
social interaction, who are guided by similar
norms, values and expectations, and who maintain
a stable pattern of relationship over a period of
time.
 c. In-group
- group with which the individual identifies
and which gives him sense of belonging,
solidarity, camaraderie, esprit de corps, and a
protective attitude toward the other members.
- The members are loyal to each other and
share common norms, activities, goals and
background.
 d. out-group
- viewed as outsiders by the in-group;
- Any member of the in-group has insufficient
contact with the members of the out-group
- Members of the in-group have feelings of
strangeness, dislikes, avoidance,
antagonism, indifference and even hatred
toward the out-group
 e. Reference
group
- Group that is significant to us as models even
though we ourselves may not be a part of the
group.
- Is one which an individual does not only
have a high regard for but one after which he
or she patterns his/her life
- Its central aspect is self-identification rather
than actual membership
 f. network

- Collection of people tied together by a

specific patterns of connections.
- number of people (dyad, triad)
- Giving of information and establishing of
connections and various relationships can be
done through social networking sites.
Situation analysis

A.Pretend that you belong to a particular

group in your class. You noticed that one
classmate from your class does not
belong to any group. What would you
do? Would you invite him to join in your
group? Why or why not?