Socialization process

Eli Pardue
10/31/07
AP Lang Comp
LaMags

The socialization process is when people absorb the beleifs of their culture and surroundings, most often times from those who are closest to them, such as parents and other family members.

Personally, I do beleive that a persons central beleifs and values come from the environment that they weere born into. For example, say you have an extremely sterotypical white supremicist family. This family has two children, the second of which is given to an adoption agency and is taken in by a sterotypical northern liberal family that believes in the equality of man (keep in mind that both children are still infants). The infant in the biological family will most likely grow up with the beleif that all men are not created equl, and will most likely have serious predjudice against those different to him. The adopted child will probably have liberl views because that is what his parents will have taught him. This example shows that even though the two hcildren come from the same biological parents, they can have drastically differnet views on predjudice based on how they were raised.