ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Hidden Curriculum
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Different agents of socialization have different levels of influences on you (depending on age and stage of life) as a child, your parents influenced you greatly; as a teen, your friends influence you more. Secondary agents of socialization the non-family people and institutions that teach an individual social behaviour and norms typically secondary agents of socialization begin to influence a child once they begin school. Secondary agent of socialization: school schools socialize students through a hidden curriculum it models a certain set of beliefs and attitudes that endorse specific behaviour in different situations. Hidden curriculum includes skills like teamwork, self-reliance, punctuality, obedience etc. these skills are aimed to be internalized by the student. Peers are people of the same age. Peer groups influence an individual the most during adolescence the adolescence peer group allows teens to learn social skills like communication, collaboration, and compromise (the social curriculum of schools)
