Socialization in Diverse Contexts

About this chapter

Socialization in Diverse Contexts is the spine chapter for the CDP section of CTET Paper II. It defines socialization as the lifelong interaction process through which a child imbibes the beliefs, values, attitudes and habits of her social group, lists its five features (instils discipline, controls behaviour, needs unanimity among agencies, comes in formal and non-formal forms, is continuous) and walks through five types — primary, secondary, developmental, anticipatory and resocialization. It then maps growing-up experiences across diverse contexts: traditional and non-traditional family structures, single parent, commuter and cohabitation households, low-income and affluent families, parent-child relationships with four parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, neglectful), adverse situations (poverty, war zones, orphanages, migrant labour, disability) and gender — girls growing up in cities, rural India, tribal communities and slums. The chapter closes with implications for teachers as agents of socio-cultural change. CTET Paper II — pitched at the upper-primary teacher of ages 11-14 — tests this through definitions, type-matching, parenting-style scenarios, family-structure cases and pedagogy items on the teacher's role. The four tests cover Practice 15, Quiz 15, Hard 15, Mastery 30.