Family As An Important Factor For The Education And Socialization Of Children

Abstract

The family is the first social space where every human being is socialized and develops as a person. For a child, it is a base, a center for building a social network through which children experience life. From a psychological point of view, the family is a social institution based on feelings, and from a pedagogical point of view it is a small group, a primary social community of fundamental importance for the socialization of the growing generation. The family is also the first educational environment for the child from a chronological point of view as well as in terms of the degree of importance of the factors influencing a child’s overall development. It is also a micro-society that provides the knowledge and values necessary for the integration of a child into the global social space. Every person’s start in life, which is highly individual and different, is determined precisely by the influence of the basic social environment - the family. Therefore, the status of the family becomes the status of the child. A child sticks to that status for a long time until s/he is able to change it. The good or bad reputation of the family is also transferred to the child and a significant part of his/her relationships is built under the influence of such reputation. The position of the family in the social structure becomes the position of the child. The family environment has a great impact on the future and the potential prospects that become available to the child. That is why the process of socialization, similarly to the process of education, is associated with the beginning from the very birth of a person, that is, with the family, because it is in the family where a child gains his/her first knowledge about the surrounding material and social world and about the interpersonal relationships. The child learns the laws, the forms of government, the concepts of debt, belonging, conscience, responsibility, the patterns of behavior, and so on. The social and moral attitudes are formed. That is why the family stands out as one of the important factors for the upbringing and socialization of the child.