This document discusses the major agents of socialization that influence typical human behavior, including family, peer groups, school, the workplace, religion, government, and mass media. These social institutions teach people how to behave, provide models and examples to follow, and are where norms and lessons in conduct are learned, even if one does not always want to behave in the ways they are socialized.

1. AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION
How do we grow up? Where does our typical
behavior come from? Who teaches us? Who
models for us? Who sets an example?
Why do we behave the way we do, even when we
sometimes don’t want to?
Eric Strayer 2014

2. Family (like father like son)

3. Family (lessons in behavior)

4. Like father like
son. Oops!

5. PEER GROUPS

6. SCHOOL

7. SCHOOL

8. THE WORKPLACE

9. THE WORKPLACE

10. THE WORKPLACE

11. RELIGION

12. RELIGION

13. RELIGION

14. THE GOVERNMENT

15. THE GOVERNMENT

16. MASS MEDIA

17. MASS MEDIA

18. MASS MEDIA

19. MASS MEDIA

20. MR. SMITH FROM THE MATRIX

21. finis