What Is Personal Socialization?

I was born to my mother and father in 1997. I was born and raised in California, my mother and father were born and raised in India and later moved to California. I have an older brother and an older sister. I am part of a subculture here in America, however growing up here was wonderful, as a baby, my roles and obligations were practically nonexistent for my mother and father. I currently occupy the status of a student, as a result I am always in the process of learning, especially from a young age. From the very young stages of my life from when I was around two to five years old, I had basic norms and values to follow. From a major part of my childhood, my parents were practically my teachers in which they educated me about the theory norms,

School is filled with several rules consisting of do’s and don’ts. Students who failed to follow those rules and norms received sanctions. Sanctions are simply mechanisms of social control, therefore when I failed to follow a teacher’s instructions by breaking a rule of some sort, I received a negative sanction. I was sent to the corner of the room which was known as the “time-out area”. Sanctions were imposed on my behaviour to ensure that I was aware of the result of my behaviour, whether it was good or bad. In some cases, I received positive sanctions. When I scored very high on a class test, I received 3 gold stars under my name on the wall. This motivated me to continuously perform well on my tests. The conception of social control and sanctions helped maintain an organized system of reward and punishment which provided a disciplined work environment for

My peers were my clique of closest friends, I always had a large peer group in which they had a major influence on my behaviour in school. In most of the circumstances, my peers had a positive impact on my demeanor since I spent time with friends who had high grades and played several sports. The habits of my friends moderately passed down to me which is when I realized that I was getting peer pressured into doing good things that would positively impact my life as a student. A common misconception of peer pressure is the negative peer pressure which occurs, but my friends pressured me into studying more and going outside to play more sports like tennis and soccer. My peers helped shape my social conformity because they awarded conformity to their norms and punished nonconformity. I did certain things to gain acceptance into the social group, for example I played baseball for the first time with my new group of friends, I played video games and other activities in which I was awarded conformity to that new group of peers in my school. The process of social interaction between my peers and I led to better stages of my life as a student, studying became easier, spending time in class became more productive, teachers and subjects became more interesting, which brings me to my next significant agency of