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Erving Goffman suggests that meaning is constructed through interaction. He coined Dramaturgy that made an analogy to social interaction and the theater, where people take on roles to create favorable impressions of themselves.
Family: There are different agents of socialization that are social groups, institutions and individuals who create structured situations. The Family is the most significant and teaches us values in the basic form and shows us norms that help to shape our identity.
Schools and Churches: Give us education and hidden curriculum in the latent functions. They teach aspects such as neatness, discipline, punctuality. These things are important late in life.
Peers: Our peers give us a different set of social skills that are more immediately important than those given by the family. Since adolescents are attending school longer, peer group socialization is increasing because it segregates adolescents.
Mass Media: The mass media that includes television, computers, internet and reading materials, often override family. Mass media installs values and norms like buying and consuming.
Roles: Our position in society comes with a set of behaviors that are expected. For example a student would be expectedton study, read, and listen.
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