Education System and Family on Culture
HOW THE EDUCTION SYSTEM AND THE FAMILY COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER’S ROLES IN LEARNING THE DOMINANT CULTURE.
Humans are born without culture, parents, teachers, and others inculcate and prepare these infants and adults to function in social life. This process of acquiring culture and social well-being referred to as socialization is thus the means by which social and cultural continuity are attained. Generally, socialization is into two categories primary and secondary socializations.
Primary socialization typically begins at birth and moves forward until the beginning of the school years. Facilitated mostly by the family and to a certain degree various forms of media it includes all the ways the newborn is molded into a social being, capable of interacting in and meeting the expectations of society (Hammond, 2009). Particularly the family is “a basic social group united through bonds of kinship or marriage, present in all societies; ideally [it] provides [its] members with protection, companionship, security, and socialization.” However, the structure of the family and the needs that the family fulfills vary from society to society. (Harper, 2008)
Secondary socialization on the other hand is as Blanca and Williams (2012:57) wrote; socialization that takes place throughout one 's life, both as a child and as one encounters new groups that require additional socialization. It is thus the behavioral patterns reinforced by socializing agents of society outside the home.
In this Essay, three examples showing how the education system and the family; agencies of the socialization process complement each other’s roles in the life-long process of learning the dominant culture will be presented. In addition, I will identify and explain three limitations the family faces in relation to providing specific aspects of primary socialization, roles that the school then adopts.
Human beings especially Children learn culture in two major contexts; their families and the formal
Humans are born without culture, parents, teachers, and others inculcate and prepare these infants and adults to function in social life. This process of acquiring culture and social well-being referred to as socialization is thus the means by which social and cultural continuity are attained. Generally, socialization is into two categories primary and secondary socializations.
Primary socialization typically begins at birth and moves forward until the beginning of the school years. Facilitated mostly by the family and to a certain degree various forms of media it includes all the ways the newborn is molded into a social being, capable of interacting in and meeting the expectations of society (Hammond, 2009). Particularly the family is “a basic social group united through bonds of kinship or marriage, present in all societies; ideally [it] provides [its] members with protection, companionship, security, and socialization.” However, the structure of the family and the needs that the family fulfills vary from society to society. (Harper, 2008)
Secondary socialization on the other hand is as Blanca and Williams (2012:57) wrote; socialization that takes place throughout one 's life, both as a child and as one encounters new groups that require additional socialization. It is thus the behavioral patterns reinforced by socializing agents of society outside the home.
In this Essay, three examples showing how the education system and the family; agencies of the socialization process complement each other’s roles in the life-long process of learning the dominant culture will be presented. In addition, I will identify and explain three limitations the family faces in relation to providing specific aspects of primary socialization, roles that the school then adopts.
Human beings especially Children learn culture in two major contexts; their families and the formal
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