What you'll learn

• Meaning of socialization- lifelong process of inheriting and passing on the norms, customs and ideologies of a social group. It may provide the individual with the skills and habits necessary for participating within their own society.
• Agents of socialization e.g.
• family, school, religious organizations, press, age grade, peer group, clubs & societies.
• Importance of socialization- is the means by which human infants begin to acquire the skills necessary to perform as a functioning member of their society, and is the most important learning process one can experience