Identity???

nah its ok now...i kind of wanted ot know what asoects in life or also known as instisutions in life can modify or "shapes" a persons national identity?...

oh ok cool thanks...i also have other instututions such as peer pressure as well as secoundary sociolization such as eucation, mass media work government and so on...

institutions? well, in sociological terms, the family itself is an institution. as is education, the government and the media. i think these all play a part in national identity. look at education, for example. the history that is taught is predominantly european history, the values that are taught and the customs that are used on a daily basis are ones that have been used in britsin for centuries. the conflict comes when you get people from another country or another culture. how do you accommodate them? (rhetorical question)

lol, oops, looks like we were typing at the same time!

lol....oh ok.....so would you say education is the most important one...in shaping national identity?.....hedkandi1984_21....

I'm not really sure. . . .I'd say the family and the education sector both play very important roles. people generally adopt their families beliefs and views, and then education tends to reinforce most of them.

I was going to say something else, but now I've forgotten Hopefully it will come back to me!

oh ok...yeh i agree because family is primamryt sociolization which we get automatically as in the stage of childhood..but wnhen we grop up and move into ediucation .....it makes society think well mostly student...because i am a student myslef doing sioclogy..and some time actully most of the times i have to think twice in order to actually answer da question because there is sually alot of aspects to consider...but....yeh

oh what was it you wanted to say....you kind of forgottern..do try and remmember and say....lol

Ok..Here we go..


Sociology, and its perspective, views individuals as "blank slates" at birth. We are socialized by institutions (such as the family, education, even government) into normative behaviors and actions. Sociology views external effects (nurture), as opposed to internal effects (nature) such as biology as the main shaper of identity.