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Family Background As Correlate Of Child Socialization
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1.6Significance of the Study
This study will be beneficial to the following individuals:
(1)
Parents would be able to benefit from the recommendations and the
findings of this study for the fact that parental role is important to
the upbringing of the child especially, his or her socialization. This
study will be an eye opener to parents who would learn that they need to
properly act as socializing agents in the social life of the children
including their academic performance.
(2) Children would be
able to understand that they need the help of their parents to get
properly socialized. Without the parents, the socialization of the child
will be impossible therefore, this study will play the role of
educating and informing the child especially, the adolescent on the
essence of being properly nurtured by the parents. Adolescents or
students, would find the recommendations and findings of this study
useful as they will help make the child have an emotional attachment to
his/her parent, because the study will explore all that is to be known
about the home and its role in child’s socialization and home and the
school.
(3) The society will be able to understand the
essence of socialization through this study, this is because, the
recommendations and findings of this study will provide relevant
knowledge to the public on the relationship between home and social
adjustment of children in the society.
(4) Also, this study
will serve as a reference material to scholars, new researchers and even
old ones, because this study will be relevant to the matters bothering
on home and socialization of the children.
(5) Equally, the
teachers and school authorities would see this study as being valuable
because it exposes the school as a socialization agents with the home
and mass media. People working in the newspaper, television and radio
would find this study very interesting and informing because they remain
important stakeholders in this study.
1.7Scope of the Study
The study covered selected secondary schools in Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State.
1.8Definition of Terms
Operational definitions of terms were carried out in this study in the following dimension:
(1)
Socialization – This is a term which means, the process through which
children develops an awareness of and conformity to the roles and norms
for behaviour established by their culture, which the end product of the
awareness and conformity is a socially competent adult in a community.
(2)
Parental Socio-Economic Status – This refers to level of income and
quality of life or living of children’s parents. Socio-economic status
of parents is often measured by the level of the income, education,
material possessions, their occupations, position etc.
(3)
Social Adjustment – This refers to the level of socialization of child.
It is the way a child or an individual conforms or lives in disagreement
with the usual and expected values and norms in a given social setting.
(4)
Academic Performance - This means the level or rate at which a child or
student performs after a period of learning through examinations or
tests given to him or her at the end of a learning process.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study examined family background as correlate of child socialization: a case study of selected schools in Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State. Descriptive research survey design was adopted in assessing the opinions of the respondents with the use of questionnaire. Three hundred and fifty respondents were used as the representatives of the entire population of the study. Five null hypotheses were generated and tested with the use of the Pearson Product Moment Correlation for hypoth ... Continue reading---
