Lecture Topics 

2. Primary Agents:
family 
peers 
schools 
media 
 

3. Secondary Agents:
events 
religion 
social class 
economic status 
gender 
racial groups  
Communities
Generation Y

4. Opinion and Behavior Changes:
teen age years 
college experience 
marriage and divorce 
job changes 
moving up and down in social class 
 

5. Learning Theories: 
two step flow 
cognitive dissonance 
selective perception 
stimulus response 
 

6. Special Role of Mass Media:
 how television socializes 
limits of television 
media as primary agent 
 
 

7. Impact of the College Experience:
Case of a college education as a means of 
producing changes in the socialization process 
from that produced by the family 

8. Party ID and Socialization
    Importance of Party ID
    Decline of Party ID
    ID and future of American Politics
 
 
9.  Impact of political socialization on the 
Political System
What political socialization contributes to 
our understanding of the political system 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Reading Assignments
Definition
Agents of Socialization

Review of Literature

JSTOR

College Faulty  in Socialization
Peer Socialization
Media and Socialization
Socialization by Television
 

Bowling Alone

Dr. Seuss 
Civic Education
More Civic Education
Gender Differences
Gender and Television
 
 

Generation X
Politics of Generation X
Attitudes of College Students
Generation Y 
Politics of Generation Y
 
 

Processing the News
Two Step Flow
Selective Exposure
Cognitive Dissonance
 Cognitive Dissonance2
 

Role of TV
Social impact of TV
Black Family Life on Television
Sexual Messages on TV
Sex on TV
Power of Electronic Media
Television and Violence
The Soaps
Wasteland

 

Bennington College Study
College Faculty as...Agent of Poltical Socialization
 
 
Can TV Improve us

Polls on Religion