The Sociological View on Gradual Transformation of the Helpless Infant (Childhood) to Mature Adult (Adulthood)

Abstract

The paper explained socialization as the slow and gradual transformation of the helpless infant to mature adult behaving within the norms of his contemporary society. Then childhood or primary socialization as how human beings are brought in our family, learning the society's general norms values and our roles within the structure. It's also discussed that socialization process has an enormous impact on children and teens in the context of learning process, family, school, peers, mass media, religion, work place and volunteer groups each play a role in the collective process we term education. The paper also mentions that socialization functions because through the process of socialization the groups transmit its values, custom's and belief from generation to another finally the paper identifies that sometimes socialization fails because culture cannot be understood completely no individual can know the whole culture and put into practice but the paper recommended that parents should try and indicate culture into their children and make them put into practice.