Some people's behavior is normal while most of their manners are learned. When a child comes into the world, he slowly transforms into a social being and learns social ways of acting and feeling in society. Existence in society becomes unachievable without this path. This process of shaping and forming a child's individuality is known as socialization. In general socialization is a social training through which every society establishes its own ways and means to give social training from newborns to members in adulthood so that they can develop their own identity. Furthermore, the socialization process is active throughout life. However, it is socialization that transforms the child into a useful member of society and gives him social maturity. An identity is constructed through four main socialization agents: family, school, peers and media. The first and most influential temporal agent of socialization is the family. It takes hold of the newborn after birth, when the child is most helpless and needy, and does not let go throughout his life. They take part in a key role in the early sex socialization of their child. Furthermore, the parent helps their children to internalize the culture and develop a social identity. They also give a social status attributed to young family members. It can also go in the opposite direction; the child usually socializes his family members by accustoming them to their routine and creates signals for their needs, for example by winning and unleashing attacks as a newborn-child and blackmail and guilt as an adolescent-adult. The construction of this relationship goes from the cradle to the grave. The child learns respect from authoritarian parents. A family's environment influences a child's growth. Of the two parents is...... half of the card ......and access to the child. In late childhood the power of the family as an agent of socialization has significantly weakened. In the adolescent years this power is further weakened by peer group influences and the dominance of the media in the adolescent subculture. Overall there has been a historical trend whereby the power of the family as an agent of socialization has been steadily eroded by the media, peer subculture, and school. Works Cited Lopata, H. Z. (2001). A Brief History of the Harriet Martineau Sociological Society - The Introduction to Harriet Martineau: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives, p.10-11. Retrieved from http://www.sociological-origins.com/files/HMSS_2007_PROGRAM_BOOKLET.PDFDiniejko, A. (March 2010). The Victorian Web: Harriet Martineau: a radical liberal social commentator. Retrieved from http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/martineau/diniejko.html