While infants must adapt to the physical and social environments in which they are raised, relatively few social demands are placed on them.
After infancy the demands increase and cultural differences in the kinds of experiences that children have become more striking.
Socialization is the process by which individuals acquire the beliefs, values, and behaviors judged important in their society.
By socializing the young, society controls their undesirable behavior, prepares them to adapt to their environments and function effectively in it, and ensures that cultural traditions will be carried on by future generations.
Parents, peers, schools, churches and other people and institutions contribute to the socialization process.
What is the hope for their children will learn? There is much disagreement within this society and much variation from society to society in socialization curriculum.
The expert believes that parents everywhere have three very broad goals for their children:
- The survival goal – to promote the physical survival and health of the child, ensuing that the child lives long enough to have children of his or her own.
- The economic goal – to foster the skills and behavioral capacities that the child will need for economics self maintenance as an adult.
- The self-actualization goal to top foster behavior capabilities for maximizing other cultural values (for example, morality, religion, achievement, wealth, prestige and a sense of personal satisfaction).
Child Socialization Goals
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