My Own Socialisation Experience

My socialisation experience

There is much that can be said about the process of socialisation and the ways it effects individuals in their development, primary socialisation consists of institutions such as the family, and early schooling/education, and secondary socialisation is then boiled down to other such influences, such as distant family, friends, and the media.

In my personal experience, my family had a large influence over my generalised socialisation, as much of my family is Italian it differs from the culture I experience away from my family, i.e. at school. So it is much easier to see the difference, and understand the slight differences in two western cultures. It has left me with a sense of, if you will, multiculturalism. The reason I’m somewhat hesitant to suggest I myself am multicultural, is that while I’ve been raised with Italian influences, I myself am effectively born and bred British. Which leads to the idea that instead of being multicultural, I instead belong to a subculture within modern day Britain, Anglo-Italian in a sense. As although I understand my heritage, I am generally speaking much more familiar with the english culture I have become familiarised with. So instead of belonging to both cultures individually, I believe I belong to a smaller group of those with a similar band of socialisation to myself.

My friends, i.e. secondary socialisation, have equally played a major part in my upbringing, as they are effectively what assimilated me into english culture - or more directly a Brightonian-ish subculture still. For me friends have played a dramatic role in my socialisation as they have helped mould me into who I am now, they influenced me to be myself and encouraged me to be confident.

Although the media has obviously played a part in my understanding of culture, and perception there of, I do not however feel that it has played such a major role as we’re led to believe. It has obviously had some apparition in terms of...