Socialization And Racial Stereotypes

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Socialisation is known to be the process which children’s beliefs, goals and behaviours are shaped to in order for them to conform to their social groups, so they can become part of the particular groups (Parke & Buriel, (1998)cited in (Parke & Buriel, 1998). It was found that this process happens to be more complex for African American parents as they have to initially try and socialize their children to adapt to two social groups which are mainstream white society and the black community; which they belong to. Boykin & Toms, 1985; Hale-Benson,(1986), states that, previous research conducted on parents of young people who were middle-class African American; suggested that parents’ socialisation beliefs and goals for children appeared to be distinctive from individuals of other U.S. ethnic groups. This difference is believed to be caused by the cultural model of racial socialization; this is something that is mainly done by African American parents in who are prepare their children with discrimination that they believe they will encounter (McAdoo, 2002b).

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