Influence Of Socialization In Education

A personal sociological experience that was very meaningful, and also eye opening, to me was my transition from strict catholic schools all my life into a new chapter of my life at the College of Lake County. Although both my grade school and my high school were strict, it was at Carmel Catholic High School that I really began to see how strict and uniform school had become. When first coming to College of Lake County, I was incredibly taken aback by everything. The people, the social groups, the classes, the “freedom” you name it, and I was surprised by it. Just to start off, school and religion were the biggest agents of socialization I had in my life during high school. An agents of socialization are people, institutions, and social structures that pass on our social expectations and influence how we think and act. Considering we had weekly masses,

Who I was in my high school is vastly different of who I am now. At Carmel, we all had an established image of ourselves after we all found our friend groups, and upon graduation I felt lost and not like myself because I did not always have someone else to “hold up the mirror,” such as my small, primary group of friends around me to share certain things such as simply hanging out or discussing problems, for example things I would not talk to my family about, although they are included in the primary group. I look back and slightly laugh at the fact that in highschool I would consider my friends my primary group and push my family aside for many things. Currently my family are the only people to me in my primary group, and I have pushed almost everyone else to the secondary group, where it is a larger group, and that although they are important, they are not AS important as the people I surround myself with in the primary