SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Parenting Styles, Nuclear Family

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Ford

Document Summary

Have important roles and significance in the socialization process. A loving family produces a happy well-adjusted child. Members have interests, social position and age in common. Place where we learn the skills of social interaction. Process of social learning directed towards gaining a desired. Audience: televisions in the united states, 98% of households have at least one tv, 66% of households subsrice to cable. Television: hours of viewing television, average housegold, 7 hours per day, almost half of their free time. What are some other agents of socialization that are important in your own life: total institutions, a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society and manipulated by an administrative staff, resocialization- Process of learning new norms, values, and behaviors: join a new group, take a new social role, when life circumstances change dramatically. A group can also have temporal status.