UCSP: ENCULTURATION AND
SOCIALIZATION TEST
LESSON 1: Enculturation and Socialization
Enculturation and Socialization
Proponents of social learning theory argue that the set of behaviors of an individual is
acquired through enculturation and socialization processes. The variation in human
behavior is attributed to the differences in cultural templates of every society that the
individual learns from.[1]
Today, the social learning perspective is more accepted by sociologists and
anthropologists in explaining the development of behavior and attitude among humans.
Terminologies in Enculturation and Socialization
Nature biological inheritance
Nurture
cultural inheritance
Identity Formation – the compilation of the values, attitudes, and beliefs that individuals receive from their
family, peers, and community enables them to create a personal identity.
Primary Identity- consist of the roles and statutes that an individual learns as a child.
Socialization- refer to the process by which an individual is oriented and taught by his or her society’s norms.
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SOCIALIZATION TEST
Identity Formation
Social identity is a person’s notion of who he or she is in the society. This includes the
roles and statuses that he or she performs in accord to what the society expects of him
or her. [2]
2 types of identity[3]
1. Primary identity - consist of the roles and statutes that an individual learns as a
child.
Ex. Sex, age, and ethnicity.
2. Secondary identity – this consist as child gets enculturated and socialized with her or
his society’s norms.
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SOCIALIZATION TEST
Ex. Occupation, educational background, economic status and gender.
Theories on Identities[4]
1. Role Learning Theory – promotes arguments that individuals learn a repertoire of
social roles from their society. They then reproduce this repertoire in their behavior.
2. Theory on symbolic interactionism – this promotes the idea that an individual
construct their notion of the self through social interaction performed within a society.
This implies roles and their performances are part of a creative process where in the
individual sees the behavior of others an responds it by creating a role that it can play.
Norms and Values
Norms and values- it refers to all those ideas held in society that are considered good,
acceptable, and right.
Four categories of Norms
1. Folkways- the socially approved behaviors that have no moral underpinning.
2. Mores- the norms related to moral conventions.
3. Taboos- behaviors that are absolutely forbidden in specific culture.
4. Laws- consists of the rules and regulation that are implemented by the state.
- it refers to all those ideas held in society that are considered good, acceptable,
and right. [5]
, UCSP: ENCULTURATION AND
SOCIALIZATION TEST
Four categories of Norms
1. Folkways- the socially approved behaviors that have no moral underpinning.
2. Mores- the norms related to moral conventions.
3. Taboos- behaviors that are absolutely forbidden in specific culture.
4. Laws- consists of the rules and regulation that are implemented by the state.
Roles and Status[6]
SOCIALIZATION TEST
LESSON 1: Enculturation and Socialization
Enculturation and Socialization
Proponents of social learning theory argue that the set of behaviors of an individual is
acquired through enculturation and socialization processes. The variation in human
behavior is attributed to the differences in cultural templates of every society that the
individual learns from.[1]
Today, the social learning perspective is more accepted by sociologists and
anthropologists in explaining the development of behavior and attitude among humans.
Terminologies in Enculturation and Socialization
Nature biological inheritance
Nurture
cultural inheritance
Identity Formation – the compilation of the values, attitudes, and beliefs that individuals receive from their
family, peers, and community enables them to create a personal identity.
Primary Identity- consist of the roles and statutes that an individual learns as a child.
Socialization- refer to the process by which an individual is oriented and taught by his or her society’s norms.
, UCSP: ENCULTURATION AND
SOCIALIZATION TEST
Identity Formation
Social identity is a person’s notion of who he or she is in the society. This includes the
roles and statuses that he or she performs in accord to what the society expects of him
or her. [2]
2 types of identity[3]
1. Primary identity - consist of the roles and statutes that an individual learns as a
child.
Ex. Sex, age, and ethnicity.
2. Secondary identity – this consist as child gets enculturated and socialized with her or
his society’s norms.
, UCSP: ENCULTURATION AND
SOCIALIZATION TEST
Ex. Occupation, educational background, economic status and gender.
Theories on Identities[4]
1. Role Learning Theory – promotes arguments that individuals learn a repertoire of
social roles from their society. They then reproduce this repertoire in their behavior.
2. Theory on symbolic interactionism – this promotes the idea that an individual
construct their notion of the self through social interaction performed within a society.
This implies roles and their performances are part of a creative process where in the
individual sees the behavior of others an responds it by creating a role that it can play.
Norms and Values
Norms and values- it refers to all those ideas held in society that are considered good,
acceptable, and right.
Four categories of Norms
1. Folkways- the socially approved behaviors that have no moral underpinning.
2. Mores- the norms related to moral conventions.
3. Taboos- behaviors that are absolutely forbidden in specific culture.
4. Laws- consists of the rules and regulation that are implemented by the state.
- it refers to all those ideas held in society that are considered good, acceptable,
and right. [5]
, UCSP: ENCULTURATION AND
SOCIALIZATION TEST
Four categories of Norms
1. Folkways- the socially approved behaviors that have no moral underpinning.
2. Mores- the norms related to moral conventions.
3. Taboos- behaviors that are absolutely forbidden in specific culture.
4. Laws- consists of the rules and regulation that are implemented by the state.
Roles and Status[6]
