CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

SOCIALISATION AND EDUCATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
From these scenarios, which one accurately shows anticipatory socialization?
A
Nick, who’s just been sentenced to 5 years in prison for armed robbery, asks his friend Derek to prepare him for prison.
B
Luke, who’s thinking about joining a cult, reads biography about Charles Manson to prepare himself for life in a cult.
C
Maria is a high school senior planning to go to college next year, to prepare she learns to do laundry, cook, and improve her study habits.
D
Sherri is a paranoid schizophrenic has been admitted to a mental hospital, to prepare she does some online research of what to expect.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Practices commonly associated with anticipatory socialization include grooming, play-acting, training, and rehearsing. Examples of anticipatory socialization include law school students learning how to behave like lawyers, older people preparing for retirement, and Mormon boys getting ready to become missionaries.

Detailed explanation-2: -Anticipatory socialization is the process, facilitated by social interactions, in which non-group members learn to take on the values and standards of groups that they aspire to join, so as to ease their entry into the group and help them interact competently once they have been accepted by it.

Detailed explanation-3: -Anticipatory socialization This type of socialization refers to the process wherein a person practices or rehearses for future social relationships. Example: A child anticipates parenthood as he observes his parents perform their daily roles.

Detailed explanation-4: -Anticipatory socialization is important because it helps give individuals entry into a social group. It gives someone an idea of how they will mesh with the social group that they anticipate themselves joining. An example of this process is planning to join a fraternity or sorority in college.

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