School in agents of socialization?

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Answer 1

No, they are not, at least not in a positive sense.

Socializing means that you can talk, and relate to all people, no matter what their age, or back ground.

When having been exposed to proper socialization skills, you will also be able to hold a conversation in many topics from cooking to politics, and not just about the latest song, the newest hot celebrity, or the color of a razor phone one can just simply not live without; duh.

This is hardly going to be the case if our young people are separated from younger, and older people for several hours a day and grouped with only those who are the same age; a lot of wisdom that will produce.

How can they ever learn to become the adult they need to be if they rarely have a change to spend meaningful time with, or work along side them.

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Answer 2

school is a poor source of socialization as its a poor reflection of the society it is supposed to socialize young people into.

schools are modeled on 19th cent. factories into which it was expected that most young people would be working. Modern society is far less homogeneous than 150 years ago and teaching children in large groups and hierarchical structures do young people a dis-service.

schools for example restrict creativity and hamper peoples access to other age groups. my article on how home education works can be read at the source below.

Answer 3

You might want to rephrase the question.

Is it supposed to be "School as agents of socialization?"

Any place is an agent of socialization--as long as there are other people there. Socialization is the process of learning the social "standards" of a particular group. Kids who go to school would have the school, their family, any activities they participate in, etc., all as agents of socialization.

Answer 4

School is not the place to be taught socialization. School is the only place in life where you will be grouped soley with your peers... and 10 year olds should not be learning social skills from other 10 year olds. Interacting with the people that you meet in everyday life and participating in team-based activities are much better.. oh yeah and having parents that set good examples can't hurt either. :)

Answer 5

Schools are pretty distorted representations of society of large. Where else are humans going to encounter and spend significant amounts of time with up to a couple hundred other individuals born within 1 year and living within a small geographic area as they are? (Sounds like a beef cattle operation). Or line up alphabetically or by height, be herded in groups, kept under lockdown until release with metal detectors and drug sniffing dogs and military-style authority figures in charge of all aspects of their day? (Sounds like a prison).

Only an educational paradigm that establishes non-hierarchical relationships between diverse ages, levels of competence, occupations and socioeconomic and cultural groups and allows for varying interests and talents - such as that potentially provided by a home-school education - is going to reflect the actual society at large. Why would you indoctrinate one way and then turn them out into a totally different milieu? Talk about a culture shock.