Unlocking Child Development: The Crucial Roles of Family, School, and Community as Agents of Socialization
Learning in Socio Cultural Perspective Agencies of Socialisation: Family, School, Community & their role in Child Development Agencies of Socialisation: Family, School, Peer Groups and Mass Media! In general, it may be said that the total society is the agency for socialisation and that each person with whom one comes into contact and interact is in some way an agent of socialisation. Socialisation is found in all interactions but the most influential interaction occurs in particular groups which are referred to as agencies of socialisation. The oblivious beginning of the process for the new-born child is his immediate family group, but this is soon extended to many other groups. Other than the family, the most important are the schools, the peer groups (friends circle) and the mass media. The family: The child’s first world is that of his family. It is a world in itself, in which the child learns to live, to move and to have his being. Within it, not only the biological tasks of ...