Agencies of Socialisation

A child is socialised through several different agencies and institutions across the course of growing up -- principally the family, the peer group, the school, the mass media, and more broadly the occupational group, social class or caste, region and religion a person belongs to. Each of these teaches somewhat different lessons and operates in a different way, which is exactly why children growing up in the same broad society can still end up with noticeably different outlooks. The following sub-sections look at each of these ag …