This essay is about the process of socialisation, which takes place in everyone’s lives. I am trying to find out whether peer groups are important in the process of socialisation.
Socialisation means learning your culture, norms, beliefs, and values.
Peer groups are people that are your age and they can influence you.
Gender roles are things that influence people in different ways, depending on how that person takes it.
We become socialised by our parents who we see from birth and copy what they do. We also become socialised by our peer groups i.e. we copy the clothes they buy, Media plays quite a important role to i.e. we watch T.V which shows us loads of things we don’t know and how we can approach those things and do them. The latest theory that we know of is that peer groups are more important in socialisation than parents. Its been said that, to ask a child to be like there parents is like asking a chicken to be like a cow. Peer groups can influence us by the clothes they wear, the way they speak, the way they treat other people. You can get different peer groups like the popular who know all the latest gossip like whose going out with who, they also very laid back and cool, they are all leaders not followers, they all hang around in large groups.
