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Discuss the peer group as an agent of socialization.

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The next most important agency of socialization is the peer group. The peer group consists of his age mates, payments, status mates, those who form the inner circle of friends, class mates, workmates etc., who share almost the status with the child. They serve an important function in defining appropriate behavior, acquiring appropriate roles, setting standards of conduct, arriving at a level of personal independence and inculcating goals. 

The child acquires something from his friends and playmates which he cannot acquires cooperative morality and some of – the informal aspects of culture like fashions, fads, crazes, modes of gratification etc. the peer group also provides opportunities to explore tabooed topics. For instance, most of the sex knowledge in early stage, rightly or wrongly, comes from one’s peer group.



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