Importance of Socialization to Students

Socialization involves accepting or assimilating other people’s norms and values of society. Socialization takes place in the context of communication. People socialize as a family and peers. Nowadays, socialization has been extended to mass media. People from different parts of the world meet virtually on social media where they interact and share various lifestyles. As a part of social learning, socialization is very significant to many people specifically or including students at all levels of education.  Socialization is a sociological process that involves interaction with various people and individuals at your range. These individuals might include your parents, siblings, friends, and teachers. It involves the exchange of ideas, opinions, and feelings that affect our everyday life. Socialization has many positive impacts on different societies such as schools, churches, families, and in many other places. The following are some of the significances of socialization rather at school:

1.  Socialization helps students obtain social skills in various aspects of life

2.  Socialization exposes students to other cultures and lifestyles

3.  Socialization helps students to establish relationships

4.  Socialization promotes self-actualization

5.  Overcoming shyness and Gaining confidence

1.  Socialization helps students obtain social skills in various aspects of life

Just as any institution or organization, an academic institution consists of groups of people from different cultures, ethnic groups, and countries. People who live a different life and treat life differently from others. People who grow up from different backgrounds. Some students are even more talented and skillful than others. All in one, interaction is the best way to be exposed to and adopt these mixed ways of social life. When time passes by these people are identified as one. People assimilate and share new knowledge and skills in the process of everyday interaction. Students also learn how to deal with other people kindly. In short many skills that interaction exists between cultures bring. Social skills such as relationship skills and leadership skills are passed from one individual to another through interaction and experiences that one has. Learning and adopting other cultures includes learning another language, the way one dresses, and what we consider right or wrong after learning another language.

2.  Socialization exposes students to other cultures and lifestyles

An academic institution is a community that comprises a diversity of cultures where people that have different cultural values and attitudes meet and share them amongst themselves.  Students create a new cultural identity based on their current environment or society. cultural diversity reduces cultural barriers such as stereotypes based on cultural, ethical, or racial differences. On the other cultural diversity promotes unity and solidarity among people, particularly students.  At school, children learn about cultural beliefs, norms, and values through interaction both inside and outside the classroom. This in turn helps to find common backgrounds and gaps between cultures. This development promotes an understanding of stereotypes among students. Students adopt a new positive way of living through exposure to new cultures. Almost all groups of people around the world face the same problems in their everyday life. But strangely, different cultures have different solutions to these universal problems. Therefore, when different cultures combine a more effective cultural environment is formed. Students get cultured at school and are equipped with different solutions and approaches to their every challenge. In this way, socialization enlightens society on how to survive. It trains not only students but also members of society on how to be successful in any challenge or activity one is engaged in.

3.  Socialization helps students to establish relationships

It promotes closeness and interaction between and among students. Socialization exists between students and groups. It also brings about social skills that are applied in creating, establishing, and maintaining friendships. Friendships among students are significant because of a new environment where students share skills, knowledge, and experiences. In addition to that, friendships create and promote mutual respect and trust, and a supporting spirit among students regardless of sex, gender, or any other discrepant factors.

4.  Socialization promotes self-actualization

Naturally, human beings have goals that they want to achieve in their life. Having such desires and wanting them to be accomplished is what is called ‘self-actualization’. Self-actualization is not dependent. Several factors impact its growth in every person. Whatever we learn from others through socialization affects the way we think, behave and act in a particular way to our dreams. Some systems determine such behaviors. Connectedly, these systems are routed from environmental influences, cultural values, beliefs, biology, social and psychological influences, etc. Whatever goals we have affected the way we behave and think to achieve them and vice versa. This does not occur in a vacuum interaction through socialization has a great impact instead.

5.  Overcoming shyness and boosting confidence

Shyness is a feeling of timidness or closeness whereby one is unable to speak or express themselves as a result of feeling discomfort but necessarily that they do not speak or comment on their interests and others. If an introvert in this context is a student, he or she still comments in class lessons but they mind being reserved.  While an extrovert is a person who openly and freely expresses themselves more than an introvert who is closeminded. However, being an extrovert is a bit more excellent because the person knows themselves better if they are expressible to others. If they are minded about their weaknesses and wrong sides, they are corrected. Socialization even enhances speaking confidence in students just like any other individual.

In conclusion, socialization is significant when an individual wants to gain new social skills for their day-to-day life. It is a way of learning about other cultures and lifestyles. Socialization also does the following; helps students to establish relationships, promotes self-actualization overcomes shyness, and helps in building up confidence in students when it comes to presentations and any other conversation in the public sphere.