Both, sociology and biological factors have had contradictory view for several years. Biological factors are the effects of the anatomy of people on their behaviour and actions in a society. However, sociology explains that different social activities, cultures, norms and social processes effect the behaviour and actions of people in a society. Sociologists argue that according to the biological factors people with the same genes are supposed to act and behave the same way but the actions and behaviour of children of the same family differ even though they share the same genes. They say that the behaviour and actions of a person are developed once he/she steps into the secondary stage of socialisation. However, it would be false to say that the biological make up of a person doesn’t effect the way he/she might behave in a society. Genes do effect the personality of a person, which usually people refer as the family trait; an action that symbolises the family. Yet, they behaviour and actions may change with the different levels of socialisation he/she may be on and the different social activities he/she may have.
Tag: Socialisation
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How far and in what ways are families in the modern industrial societies as important as they were in the past?
It is believed that the importance of families have faded in the modern industrial societies due to modernisation, It is said that with modernisation individual and professional lives are considered more important. They said people who first were living traditionally now live liberally and open-mindedly. Despite all the changes in the norms, family is still one of the most important social institution. Living as a nuclear family or as an extended family, family has it’s own significance.
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Socialisation
Socialisation is the process of learning by interacting within social institutions. There are two types of socialisation; primary and secondary. Primary socialisation is the basic and initial socialisation of a child. It is the one within the social institution of family i.e; parents, siblings, grandparents and other relatives. Secondary socialisation is when a child steps out into the society as an individual and interacts with people beyond the family. It usually begins at school, the institution of education. Such interaction is with teachers and the peer group.