UCS Part1
UCS Part1
CULTURE
SEX ROLE
DIFFERENTATION SOCIALIZATION IS PERSONALITY
VITAL TO:
AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION
FAMILY
MASS
SCHOOL
MEDIA
WORK
CHURCH
PLACE
PEER GROUP
SOCIAL NORMS
•Were formed in order to control individual
behavior in a given society.
• Usually in a form of rules or prescriptions
followed by people who obey certain
standard or roles in society.
•Include society's standards of morality,
good manners, legality, and integrity.
FORMS OF SOCIAL NORMS:
•Folkways
•Mores
•Laws
FOLKWAYS
•These are the customary patterns that
specify what is socially correct and
proper in everyday life.
•They are the repetitive or the typical
habits and patterns of expected behavior
followed within a group of community.
MORES
•They define what is morally right and
morally wrong.
•These are folkways with ethical and
moral significance which are strongly
held and emphasized.
LAWS
•These are norms that are enforced
formally by a special political organization.
• Component of culture that regulates and
controls the people's behavior and
conduct.
VALUES
• According to Peter Worsley, values are general
conceptions of "the good", ideas about the kind
of ends that people should pursue throughout
their lives and throughout the many different
activities in which they engage.
• Values such as fundamental rights, patriotism,
respect for human dignity, rationality, sacrifice,
individuality, equality, democracy etc. guide our
behavior in many ways.
The major value orientations of many
societies according to Robin William:
MORAL ORIENTATION
HUMANITARIANISM
AUTHORITY VALUE