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What are the agents of socialization?
- School
- peer groups
- the work place
- media
- religion
- family
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Agents of Socialization: Explain School
- teaches students a curriculum
- socialize students
- demonstrate important behaviors
- such as punctuality, self-reliance, teamwork, competiveness, and obedience
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Agents of Socialization: Explain Peer groups
- people of the same age
- opportunity to learn skills such as communication, collaboration and compromise
- responsible for teaching the individual about sexual relationships and stands in direct opposition to the values taught by the individuals family
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Agents of Socialization: Explain The Workplace
- learn about work
- explore one’s future
- learn how to provide for yourself
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Agents of Socialization: Explain Religion
- have moral codes
- have set standards of behavior
- important of charity (volunteering
- or mandatory donations)
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Agents of Socialization: Media
- includes television, radio, movies etc
- time spent watching tv means time away from others (isolation)
- the media normalizes violence through video games especially
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Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- unveiled his theory of evolution in 1859
- the theory fuelled a controversial debate with creationists about the truth of our existence
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