Introduction
Through socialization child’s skills, motives, and behavior are adjusted according to the rules that exist in society. Certain groups and organizations in society play a key role in socialization. Parents, siblings, peers, and teachers spend a lot of time explaining values to children, thereby guiding and changing their behavior. Some organizations, such as churches, schools, and law institutes, have developed a specific mission – to transmit cultural, social, and ethical standards and maintain culturally significant forms of behavior. Although many social groups influence the process of socialization, the family is considered the most influential factor in this process.
Main body
Family is the earliest and most constant source of social contact for a child. The emotional relationships and ways of interaction between the infant and the parents will influence the expectations and reaction of the child in subsequent relationships with other people. Beliefs, values, and cultural attitudes are filtered through parents and presented to the child in a personalized and selective manner. The parents’ identity, socio-economic class, religious affiliation, education, and gender will influence their presentation of cultural standards to their descendants (LeBaron et al., 2018). The social standards that the son of an authoritarian Baptist father from a lower class demonstrates will be different from those that the child of a feminist and an atheist from the middle class represents. Family relationships are still the strongest of all other types of relationships. The main reason for this is the historical continuity of the exchange of experience.
Conclusion
In conclusion, among the most diverse institutions of the social environment, the family occupies the most important place. The family has accumulated a wide variety of forms of interaction between parents and children; on this basis, optimal relationships are formed that contribute to the child’s socialization. The family structure as the basis for the socialization of the individual depends on which person will leave it. If the family is organized well, the person himself will be morally and ethically good.
Reference
LeBaron, A. B., Hill, E. J., Rosa, C. M., & Marks, L. D. (2018). Whats and hows of family financial socialization: Retrospective reports of emerging adults, parents, and grandparents. Family Relations, 67(4), 497-509. Web.