Question

To begin your discussion, consider some of the things we learn from interactions with the four major agents of socialization (family, peers, education, and media)? Make sure to consider both child socialization and adult socialization for each of the agents. Next, consider how the agents of socialization shape one other. For example, in what way might family life be shaped by education or the media? Give examples from your own experience and from the text.

Answer 1

Learning is the most important phenomenon in the world. There is no age boundation and limit for learning a new or specific thing. Every day we learn a new thing in every corner of our society either from a different person or from our peer’s one. Learning has a vast effect on people who lack education it helps to make a person self reliable or to overcome many difficulties. Learning is always a good habit. Learning is always learned from interaction and experience and there are four agents of socialization which help us to do so that is family, peers, education, and media.

Firstly, we will discuss how these agents help in adult socialization. Adults are an important part of the family member as an adult we consider them as knowledgeable and experienced in every aspect but still a person is never 100% or he/she will never be able to achieve a complete whole knowledge of the world, as an adult we learn from the small ones about new technology and latest trends, some adults are back dated and they want to learn and know about these upcoming generation which will be coming in future. Transfer of knowledge is always a healthy and good thing it is always beneficial to teach other people or to make them know about something which you posses and that thing is done by peer groups they help in transferring unrecognisable knowledge. Some adult people have a tradition to read books because as we have earlier said there is no certain age of knowing anything or gathering knowledge so education is must because through it we tends to learn different known and unknown things and it always remains fresh in our memories. Media plays a great role in an adults life watching or reading paper help adult to keep updated with different information and the current situation of the country.

Secondly, impact of these agents on child socialization. A child learns different things from the family because a family will always want to guide his child so that they keep growing in their life and never face difficulty so a best suggestion like what to do? Which path to choose? Always comes from the family side. Peers also help in learning different thing, a group study or solving problems with friends is always acceptable and beneficial. Education is the key to success in a child life without it nothing is possible. Education is must for every child because it not only helps a person to stand in his/her life but also help to overcome difficulties in bad times. Media act as a source of communication it connects a child to the entire world through which a child learn and showcase his/her skills.

These agents also help themselves to shape one another likewise a family is shaped by education and media as the member’s f the family should be educated enough to know about media and knowing different things because without a proper education a person will unable to enact the role of media in his/her life. So they are indirectly related and important to each other we can consider an example: a person having no education can’t read what is there in the newspaper or can’t understand the writing in the TV. So he is unaware of the danger which he/she posses in the upcoming days.

A similar example on this context which has happened in my life is that one of my cousin friends who live in a poor village doesn’t have any mode of transport, education or schools. He was an uneducated child. Many people who were smart and knows a little bit went to their main city which was more than 30 miles each day to receive education as much as possible. This child as he was unknown about study and education died after some years as there was a viral infection in that village which can only be cure with the help of certain medicine with his poor education and knowledge about the disease he took a wrong medicine as prescribed by the doctor. So learning is always important no matter what the situation is.