Socialization: Crash Course Sociology #14

Last week we introduced the idea of socialization and today we’re talking a little more about how it works, including an introduction to five main types of socialization. We’ll explore anticipatory socialization from your family, the “hidden curriculum” in schools, peer groups, the role of media in socialization, and we’ll discuss total institutions and how they can act as a form of re-socialization.
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References:
Coleman, James S. 1961. The Adolescent Society: The Social Life of the Teenager and Its Impact on Education. NY: The Free Press
Hill, David, et al. "Media and young minds." Pediatrics (2016): e20162591.
Vittrup, Brigitte, and George W. Holden. "Exploring the impact of educational television and parent-child discussions on children's racial attitudes." Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy 11.1 (2011): 82-104.
Kearney, Melissa S., and Phillip B. Levine. "Media influences on social outcomes: The impact of MTV's 16 and pregnant on teen childbearing." The American Economic Review 105.12 (2015): 3597-3632.
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[@crashcourse]

This is a re-upload because there was an error in the original upload (wrong on screen definition for "socialization"). Sorry about that!

[@Joeviocoe]

CrashCourse Yes, it did seem a bit odd that the definition of socialization included something more natural rather than social

[@ItsJustMe0585]

Thanks! :)

[@kidawesome1400]

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[@qassimsayed5432]

Thank you 🌷

[@mitchelldesemple3148]

In regards to total institutions and resocialization, to what degree does hazing fit into the mix? Also how do education systems/schools enact resocialization? I'm working on a thesis at the moment dealing with schools and what their capable of influencing for our young minds.

[@MorbidlyObeseCat_Ch]

literally watching before exams XD

[@sofetch2289]

Same

[@thefridge6913]

Same

[@MrThebeast115]

Me too lol

[@shafayrajput7837]

It's covid 19 now watching in exam..XD

[@MorbidlyObeseCat_Ch]

@@shafayrajput7837 bro that is next level

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

N.S.: What do you, as you're watching me right now, have in common with a toddler who's being read a bedtime story? Me: A constant desire to burst into tears...:(

[@mindlessdillan]

This video is pretty old but i'm taking sociology classes this semester and this video really helped me understand sociology better. I even participated more in class because I actually knew some of these terms! Definitely earned my sub!

[@callumdenault2895]

If media and the internet "socialize" us, that is, subtlety change our thoughts and values the more we consume it, what affect does that have on our culture as a whole? What I'm thinking is, the internet, with its many benefits and freedoms, has allowed people to say things way meaner and more hateful than would have been accepted in the past. Maybe that's why there's so much political anger now between people, we've been socialized by the internet to be rude, selfish and quicker to disagree with others.

[@dkSilo]

Yes and no. Basically the echo chamber effect is amplified in the internet. Anything is accessible and groups tend to reinforce their beliefs anyway. Now you have it easier to find like minded people. If you were a minority in a town or country, you can now find each other. And yes, some barriers are absent in the internet, making us more prone to open up. But that goes both ways. It can reinforce "good" behavior and ideas. Nerdfighteria is a great example of the second categorie.

[@callumdenault2895]

+dkSilo yeah, that's very true. I guess it goes both ways with how one sees minorities. If a person finds a lot people of the same group online, they might assume that group is bigger in the real world then it actually is. Or they may not see a certain group online, and be surprised how many members of that group there are out in public.

[@hauntedwafflecake]

I agree with dkSilo. People are not more angry, more hateful or even more dumb than before... the internet just give us access to more people, allowing us to see more of the hate, anger and stupidity of the world, when before we were limited to people we could meet in person and what the mainstream media chose to show. The internet thankfully give us access to more kind, open minded people and to more knowledge, but the more content, the more people, the more freedom we have, we'll obviously also have more of the bad parts as well.

[@danny_yeets]

A lot of people are saying that media is making the shift from a secondary source of socialization to a primary source.

[@Gettinsketchyonbourbon]

Callum Denault social media for an example has made us think about the inner workings of individuals. somebody we might have just passed by we get to know through their post. I know somebody who went to the oil pipeline in was part of the protest. I got to understand their frame of mind. I understand how Republicans respond to things. I learn to reflect on myself and my values. different movements such as feminism really made people take a critical thought into things. well they may not always be correct. it makes you see things such as how demeaning post can isolate people and cause bad relationship to happen.

[@eruyommo]

What I don't like of reuploads is the good comments that are lost forever. :'c

[@SuviTuuliAllan]

What I don't like about the internet is the data that is lost forever. We need to make it all permanent!

[@ericvulgate]

my facebook from 7 years ago is 90% dead links.

[@41A2E]

"good" comments. . .

[@GreatJobTy]

Hie.Do you want to improve? Want videos with practical, EASY to understand tips to start applying to your life? No I'm not selling anything, I'm not some scam life coach. *Just Head to my channel and I'll help you out.*

[@FreeTheDonbas]

"good comments" - oxymoron alert.

[@BasitKhanSafi]

I would call hidden curriculum as "Latent Functions"

[@SantaClaus-kk8zr]

Answer to the first 5 seconds, both make me want to fall asleep.

[@SunriseFireberry]

Other total institutions include kids' camps, religious camps, monasteries & convents.

[@CaffieneKitty]

And prisons.

[@SunriseFireberry]

The presenter already mntned prisons. She could've mntned POW camps and concentration camps. Any institution that is in control 24/7 or more intense 24/365 as the years truck by.

[@MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs]

TimeAndChance Include political rallies in your list.

[@SunriseFireberry]

The idea Crash Course & I (I think) are getting across is that of the cloistered institution, where people are separated from mainstream society for weeks, months, or years at a time. Political rallies are intense, short, & participants are free to go about their regular lives afterwards. The political rally, like the big NAZI ones in '30s Nuremberg, may be closer to a religious 'tent meeting'. Wonder what CC thinks?

[@MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs]

TimeAndChance Well... I was actually joking. I agree with you. 😁

[@tzegoh333]

Hmmm... I have aspergers, so this is all new to me. I never knew that there was a hidden curriculum beyond actual lessons in schools.

[@unitedwestand7778]

All 5 of my kids are home-schooled, and the first thing everyone says is, well what about the socialization?... LOL and that's the main reason why my kids do not go to public schools because the socialization is absolutely terrible in every Public School in this country, literally.

[@MissNamaSlay]

I was homeschooled only in high school unfortunately. Wish my mom would have listened to me and my actions. Never got good grades until i was homeschooled and our relationship flourished once i was. Your a great parent!

[@truthbetold4350]

One thing for sure is, the socialization that goes on in the public schools is absolutely horrendous. It seems like almost every teenager I meet has some type of mental issue... I mean people will say it's just normal kid stuff, the way they act...but it's been normalized, it's not actually normal, kids are really messed up.

[@kear]

it is normal to go through these kind of mental illnesses throughout the teen years

[@juliebarkley1066]

It isn’t normal for children to spend so much time with their peer group. School is a pretty modern invention. Teens might be better off socially if they could mentor younger people and have better relationships with older people. Instead, they learn from their peers, who are as ignorant and confused as they are.

[@benskid469]

While the socialization that happens in educational institutions do have an influence, it's important to remember that correlation doesn't equal causation; socialization in public schools may have played a role in contributing to mental health issues (or maybe they don't. Nevertheless, they do have the potential) but are definitely not the only cause. Mental health issues are complex and happen due to so many things. Nevertheless, educational institutes and many others in society can take more steps to help raise awareness and tackle mental health more strongly, which would be awesome.

[@ruoweilim7334]

exactly what is it about sociology that grinds y'all's gears.... math and science teach you about the way the universe and the environment and evolution works, and sociology teaches you about the way humans and consequently, the world, works. they're all inherently objective. just because sociology touches on subjects that we have turned into controversies doesn't make sociology itself tendentious. in fact, that's a part of what you learn in sociology. all sciences are equally important. i'm not even gonna say sociology is like, more relevant or anything, it's just another field of study in our pursuit of knowledge, okay? jeez. just shut up and listen.

[@DaiQibao]

"sociology teaches you about the way humans and consequently, the world, works. they're all inherently objective." *False. A person pretending things "social" isn't objective. eg A person feeling about another person cannot be objective. Objective things are not imagined things. Sociology is pretend, as it's not testable, thus "social ARTS".*

[@KravenTheHaunter]

Except that it is testable, and subjected to the scientific method, which you'd know if you'd actually watched any of these videos.

[@dipro001]

NICOLE IS SO CUTE! I am developing such a crush on her! Love the way you talk!

[@MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs]

I have no friends nor a peer group. Am I socialized by my own total institution? 😮

[@counselorchandru]

I love how you took the example of a spelling bee to illustrate the winner-loser classification as opposed to the traditional sport-based examples usually used to illustrate exactly that in every movie you've seen.

[@RagerQueen]

you guys should stop making me hopeful with all these reuploads

[@Gettinsketchyonbourbon]

I think trauma, defeat and empathy play a great role. Things such as Trump become president has really made people more alert to what is happening.

[@thecutecat22]

This topic is getting more interesting over time... Superb Nicole and team..

[@emogirlhashervengz]

This was a good brief on socialization, but I wish that these types of socialization would be further discussed in more depth.

[@GMRTranscriptionServicesInc]

The GenX is more attuned to virtual socialization as they are more in sync with the digitized world.

[@fikretkomurcu7161]

I actually didn´t see that :P I just saw CrashCourse and I automatically thought "I have to watch this" :)

[@sethpolley7999]

What if my parents just taught me how to behave, not how “other races” behave

[@Meeesa]

Then I'd say you should thank your parents for raising you right. :)

[@JamesSkuzz]

Wouldn't kids expectations of how to socialise influence how they socialise which in turn influences how they do on connens test, which would then influence the media creating the breakfast club, which then influences the kids, reinforcing those original expectations?

[@Just_Peachy_Mo99]

I never really thought about how the people we surround ourselves with in school make an impact on how we handle school. This really was a great informational video!

[@ianrbuck]

Is this the first time Nicole has said her own name in this series?

[@Gaganjaura0001]

What is her full name

[@abriellh]

3:32 it teaches them that games have winners and loosers not "the world". im just bitter cuz i cant spell

[@ErikPukinskis]

I find it a little disappointing that gender, race, class, sexuality, and disability are sort of held up here as the walls and floor of socialization. What about sports, creativity, capitalism, apprenticeship vs liberal arts, political systems, music and dance, etc? By putting things like gender and race at the center of this discussion, I think you accidentally promote a form of gender- and racial- determinism that a lot of people on KZbinrs are going to have a hard time with. Ironically, if you taught Sociology in a more neutral way, focusing not on controversial claims but on the methodology and actual results of sociological research, I think you would give people tools to help them have better conversations about those controversial subjects, like where and when gender socialization does and does not happen. Instead, by presenting these big, categorical identities as the primary residence of Sociology, you make it easier for people to write off the whole field as existing only to support gender- and race- essentialism.

[@olivercuenca4109]

Probably material for another video. They did touch on it with the comments about spelling bees and school cliques. There may be a video on Pierre Bourdieu, which would cover that a lot of that sort of stuff. If not, they should definitely make one.

[@TrekJohnDoe]

Erik Pukinskis good comment.

[@hello-ef4bn]

definitely agree.

[@danielzulu6154]

I wish I had known about Crash course earlier, you guys are doing a great job 👍👍👍👍👍

[@sabggggfg7617]

I really understand the topic of socialization but would you please little bit slow down while you are teaching because it's makes hard for us

[@nutiketgotc]

Oh look, you missed another opportunity to discuss gender outside of cis experience. Disappointing, Crash Course used to be much better.

[@olivercuenca4109]

There's a lot to cover for socialisation. Why should they focus on one particular kind of consequence of socialisation? I'll say the same thing to you as I did to the guy who wanted them to talk about its consequence on the class system: the video would be an hour long if they did, and what you're talking about has enough subject matter to fill an entire additional video.

[@Radrook353]

Why are in such a frenetic hurry?

[@petemeads1773]

awesome, clear, straight to the point, good content, wish i could give u more than 1 thumbs up

[@valkyrietseng]

Hi Nicole, you are amazing! I love how you explain all those specific terms in a so easy and understandable way, I learned so much from you, thank you and Crash Course so much!

[@michaelwilson6268]

Is being socialized good bad??

[@MarkoNiinimaki]

A reference to title of Coleman's study would be useful. Wikipedia's article on Coleman does not mention the study that is quoted here. And I think Coleman did not use terms like Nerds and Jocks as category names.

[@rosesarelike]

Who has been the biggest influence for me? Hank and John Green

[@christmassia3213]

god you are speaking really fast !

[@shaokhanwins1037]

N.S.: What do you, as you're watching me right now, have in common with a toddler who's being read a bedtime story? Me: I have no idea what the person im listening to is about to say.

[@titusmushinge8328]

I got question are people likely to socialise according to their social class and why

[@soccer90tem80]

Wtf is this slow down for love of God for a second..

[@markconway6719]

Is there a transcript of this? I'm taking sociology online, but do better with reading than listening. Thanks

[@zonunasanga4023]

Nice I've gained a lot....

[@essmene]

How does socialisation explain split twins ending up with similar choices in values, clothing, music? They grew up in totally different backgrounds.

[@ToyRidgeDIY]

And that's why we homeschool.

[@Meeesa]

I am thankful for these videos as I am in a sociology course. But I digress, I am not thankful that I have to take sociology (or aka indoctrination studies).

[@GodYamrajOP]

Life is all about socialization, desocialization, resocialization and again socialization...!

[@kmonko7]

Take a Sociology CLEP test tomorrow. Wish there were more videos up! They've been awesome so far.

[@sockthief9138]

I have a question. How would altruism fit into all this? Would altruism affect socialization?

[@KBdotHAQ]

Most ppl go to school and come out more ignorant or just as ignorant if they came in. That's why bullying and segregation. How many years has public school been around?

[@phasemac7291]

the presence of books in the home is associated with children doing well not in school but in future life also...

[@crimsonluna]

Thank you so much Crash Course for starting Sociology. I'm taking sociology in a few days, making things more convenient and hopefully beyond comprehensible with this amazing channel and its content. :)

[@DaiQibao]

"I'm taking sociology in a few days" *A useless career course.*

[@crimsonluna]

Dai Qibao i need it for my pre med. it's a requirement for the MCAT prep. Funny.

[@crimsonluna]

Dai Qibao fills up my social science creds as well

[@DaiQibao]

"it's a requirement for the MCAT prep. fills up my social science creds as well" *To clarify, sociology is useless information for a career. Sociology are courses for privledge people that don't need a career others want to pay for. There are no required courses for a MCAT. Learning information that is relevant to a career in medicine does not involve sociology.* *I'm looking at our medical library, there is NO sociology books in it. That's evidence anyone can see correct? The pace of real medical research has no place for the idiocy of pretend sociology arts, today alone 284 medical text where published in the world.* *If a institution wanted to program a pretend political ideology in a group, then sociology would be a method to indoctrinate as the power of religious organisation had done before the enlightenment. Programming a group in social pretending makes anything bad justifiable by that group pretending they only matter.*

[@armanke13]

Boarding school as an example for total re-sosialization.. never thought like that before.. 🤔

[@HananAman20]

do you guys think this kind of videos could help me improve my English I'm intermediate btw .. and I've never taking any courses or lessons so I am learning through reading books and watching videos oh and I'm going to take the toefl test soon so hopefully i do good .. please tell me if I said anything wrong ♥ and if you have any tips or don't mind to be my English learning partner please contact me :-)

[@portocaiofs]

Hanan Aman It works pretty well, at least for me... go ahead!

[@dhanaazm7897]

@dear old lady. It is an excellent way to learn the language. Ms Sweeny speaks very fast so you reduce the speed of her speech. Atta boy go for it.

[@anastasiaromanova4377]

8 months later... How was your performance on TOEFL? Did you do well?)

[@TrekJohnDoe]

Dead Old lady that's sweet. you wrote English well.

[@Guyplant]

Can any one explain what content and practices are in reference to socialization, and what the difference of the two are?

[@tonyar952]

Reminds me of Year 10 Sociology. Big Up Mr Hill!

[@pau4672]

Hello! I would like to have the link of the article of the James Coleman or the name of it. Thanks

[@JacobParkYusuk]

But the world does have winners and losers...

[@armanke13]

Jacob Park, yes.. why the 'but'? 😅 watch again 3:30

[@manelcherrak6574]

my secondary socialization begane in middle school near high school :p

[@sanfran-switchcode5480]

Schools can just be a reinforcement of the types of people you’re at home with

[@nikolademitri731]

Well, there goes an interesting and productive conversation... @De Jure Claims, and the others from the thread he started,if you want to continue the discussion and want me to post those articles I can below. Simply respond if you can find this... Damn you reupload..

[@mayrandaisydraws]

Crash course mathematics

[@maksim_tak]

Yes! I’d love that!

[@armanke13]

I think it'll be too broad.. khan academy covers math well

[@Daugi5613]

i like your teeth

[@MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs]

Daniel Ikupu Thank you.

[@khaled3248]

i like her eyes LOL JK

[@lucywatson9375]

so, resocialization is more like a brainwash

[@jcovent]

Brilliant. Concise. Needed a refresher, thanks

[@alexdavinci9533]

☆☆☆☆ 4 well deserved stars! :-)

[@ZimbaZumba]

GI Jane? Women's participation in the military has been minimal at best. Subliminal manipulation of perceptions or what?

[@dianastoevelaar9548]

Thank you for this very concise informative video. 😊

[@Vezerai]

Teeth

[@suigeneris2680]

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[@arshimallick7429]

Thanx mam m from India

[@fangirlfortheages5940]

Would my sleepaway camp be a total institution?

[@dfardhad2758]

Perfect....but very fluent. ...

[@h1p9y56]

6:40 YOU FORGOT TO HIGHLIGHT THE C IN COGNITIVE!!! Unforgivable.

[@floorcat7985]

H1P9Y lol

[@deliciousness_swag6892]

She talk too fast

[@aaronyu2660]

The sense of reward might also be learned from their sense of need first, like they might fear hunger, and while already having food keeps is in the back of most people now a days, yet then, they learn greed through avoiding the pain, then joy of having opportunity. Then as we develop advanced emotions and then affect how we think today.

[@XavierBJohnson]

good video, but "racial socialization" doesn't exist. There are no "behaviors, values, and attitudes" associated with race, you may be thinking of "cultural socialization" . Like sex, race is genetic, and not memetic, you simply are what you are, no socialization is required. There is no such thing as "acting black" or "acting asian". Behavior is connected to culture, not race.

[@ReginaFera]

"Race Is a Social Construct, Scientists Argue Racial categories are weak proxies for genetic diversity and need to be phased out " www.scientificamerican.com/article/race-is-a-social-construct-scientists-argue/

[@simonkramer5608]

Xavier Johnson Race is a construct to cathegorize humans in different cathegories depending on there phenotype. Biological there aren't human races. But because there are racist traids in a society people identify with their "race"; but the impact on this racial sozialisation depends on how society treads people of different races

[@XavierBJohnson]

Not my argument in the first place, but don't get me wrong, I'm not the one who used the term "racial socialization" Regardless, my argument still stands, behavior, values, etc, are a product of culture, not race or genetics. In any case, like many modern social issue, it's an argument of semantics. "race" vs "ethnicity" vs "phenotype" vs "genetic diversity" etc etc etc. Use whatever term you want, but genes are genes and culture is culture. It's important not to conflate the two.

[@CamelDance]

'There are no "behaviors, values, and attitudes" associated with race' They are not inherent, but these behaviours, values and attitudes are memetic. Just like 'race' itself, by the way. Throughout history, there's been lots of ways to divide people into races. There is nothing inherent about 'race' as we see it today, it's a cultural construct. I mean, just look at de diversity of black people vs. the diversity of white and asian people. If race was to be biologically meaningful, to have separate white and asian races, you'd need hundereds of black races. But we don't. Because it's cultural.

[@robertmcgann5881]

Note the episode addresses racial socialization as not only being within a particular social group but also within other groups. So while you may be right that there may be no such thing as "acting black", there is a socialization aspect within, say, white groups about what behaviors are seen as characteristic of other groups, whether those behaviors actually exist or not

[@rositavalentine4531]

If only there would relate sociology more to the caribbean, then ill be able to write essays with no problem pertaining to the caribbean

[@steampunkerella]

oh hey, this again. good episode

[@lioneljoseph7360]

This stuff is so interesting. I think I want to study sociology on a deeper level.

[@jweather66]

The peer groups of school B matched what I thought my high school seemed like

[@junaidmajeed3222]

Lovely

[@gustavolrcoelho]

I'm not even touch the subject of "gender socialization", but "3 R's"? Read, Write and Arithmetics? Dafuq?

[@secularmonk5176]

It's a colloquial expression from traditional rural America: "read'n ... 'rite'n ... 'rithmetic" These were considered the only subjects appropriate to pull kids off the farm to learn ... anything else (especially liberal arts) was propagandizing by "outsiders".

[@shadymedic]

I write a test about this tomorrow and this video is my only good source of information for that. I hope, it will be enough.

[@elisetrautman8663]

If my parents are my teachers then why am I not at all like them? Why do I hate them?

[@philliphart872]

it's interesting about peer groups and how they affect us, as i know from experience how this affects people. for example, when i was in primary school (elementary for americans) i used to be a proper goodytwoshoes. for example, in primary i would tell on someone to the teacher if they didn't do their homework or if they swore. know i'm i secondary school (middle school to high school) i will often swear with my friends etc. which is something i would tell on someone for just a few years ago. i still hold some of the some norms and values and religious beliefs and i would still tell on a bully, but if it doesn't affect me or anyone else, i don't really care. this is definitely swayed by my peer groups, as i only really swear with my friends etc. and at the beginning of secondary school before i made these friends, i would easily see myself telling on someoe swearing.

[@josephbartlett3398]

You guys are such a blessing

[@frosticstyle5272]

my parents didnt teach me about sex a magical place on the internet did

[@5XWAZM]

i hate that they assumed we're all american. typical western media

[@dexro2005]

I don't agree with this study. It does not explain things like when a company found itself with alienised customers without having an abroupt change in their product. Or it does not explain how someone gets into a social group. On top of everything it does not explain my life at all.. I did not had a life model I was not apart of only social group at a time and so on. In my opinion we learn only rituals from the social groups, but it does not change who we are. What we like and dislike. Also groups tend to mold more around the individual more than the individual is molding around the group. Of course that influences are from both sides, but idividuals are winners in my book by a long shot

[@nikolademitri731]

Octavian Cristea Social Psychology offers better models to explain what social aspects make up the individual. They're much more nuanced, and include evolutionary models.

[@dexro2005]

then i just dont agree with thoes that present their work as they do it

[@triptostrifethrive8537]

can't you talk bit show... so that i can understand..

[@oldcowbb]

don't socialize by the comment section

[@Ragd0ll1337]

Ah, back again for an episode of "the enthusiastically nerdy TA I wish existed at my university"

[@catherineearnshawheathclif866]

So does watching Spongebob make me stupid?

[@yabedechewata8839]

I LIKE IT

[@Loveyourself21072]

the teacher showed me this vid in class 2day

[@raisabelokamenskaya5631]

Bro not everything is about America

[@ciaoitalo]

So this is what the matrix was about!

[@ZENIX-EDITZ]

Watching from nepal country

[@Calakapepe]

I was taught Rinse, Recycle, Repeat