Agents of Socialization

In the lesson on Agents of socialization we dicuss what groups influence us and our daily lives. Agents include, family, school, friends, media and sports. What about our culture makes us the way we are? Well with the media being so concerned with apperence we're worried about diet and the way we look, and how people judge us. Then there's the typical peer pressure card where your friends are pressuring you to act a ceratain way try different things etc. In the freaks and geeks episode we watched the main character was caught between her agents, to have a party or not? Her school friends pushing the yes and her family, brother, pushing the no. She evetually did have the party and acted a certain way around her friends by acting drunk and what the culture believes is "cool".