7. Role of the state on socialization

Social scientists have increasingly recognized the importance of the state as an agent of socialization because of its growing impact on the life course. Traditionally, family members have served as the primary caregivers in our culture, but in the twentieth century, the family's protective function has steadily been transferred to outside agencies such as hospitals, mental health clinics, and insurance companies [9, p. 678-694]. The state runs many of these agencies or licenses and regulates them.

The state has had a noteworthy impact on the life course by reinstituting the rites of passage that had disappeared in agricultural societies and in periods of early industrialization. For example, government regulations stipulate the ages at which a person may drive a car, drink alcohol, vote in elections, marry without parental permission, work overtime, and retire. These regulations do not constitute strict rites of passage: most 18-year-olds choose not to vote, and most people choose their age of retirement without reference to government dictates. Still, the state shapes the socialization process by regulating the life course to some degree and by influencing our views of appropriate behaviour at particular ages [6, p. 312-329].

In the social policy section that follows, we will see that the state is under pressure to become a provider of child care, which would give it a new and direct role in the socialization of infants and young children.

Conclusions

We have fulfilled the indicated purpose. We have analized and described the agents of socialization of personality and have accomplished the set tasks. According to our report we have determined the following agents of socialization: family, school, peer group, mass media and technology, workplace and state.

Thus, it is possible to draw a conclusion, that in the conditions of transformational processes, which take place in modern society, socialization of personality is deprived of stable landmarks.

Socialization occurs through human interactions. We learn a great deal from those people most important in our lives – immediate family members, best friends, and teachers. But we also learn from people we see on the street, on television, and in films and magazines.

Different, often conflicting with each other valued options, quickly changing each other numerous innovations require from a personality constant reflection of its orientations in social self-determination and public status.

Socialization can occur outside of these agents but society relies on these agents doing most of the socialization. There's nothing "official" about these agents, at least not in our society. Totalitarian societies attempt to establish official agents of socialization but in a democratic society no government agency licenses or certifies them.

There are traditional agents of socialization in such conditions, such as family and education, being in a state of transformation, not always get along at the tasks of socialization. Large actuality is now acquired by such agents of socialization as mass media and other information technologies which often resort to manipulating practices, which yet more hamper the orientation of personality in the modern world. Except for it sub cultural educations start to play the determining role in socialization of personality, allowing a man to find "their own" in the quickly changing world.