Agents of Socialization: School

In the agents of socialization reading, we learned that school shapes our values. The values that we were taught at home change when you get to school every morning at 8:05 when the bell rings and then everyone is treated the same, with the same school rules. As you progress thrrough school your values change because people form cliques. Cliques are groups of usually same gender and people that like the same social norms. The only way to stay in a clique is to do everything the same and not deviate from the rule of the group to conform to one specific way, unless you want to become the outcast. I say become the outcast because why do the same thing as supposedly "your friends" when you can be original and do what you like. We have been enstilled since birth with conforming to what are parents want to be, having to graduate high school and you must get married and have kids. Those that don't do anything of these are looked on as outcast, stupid and aren't very accepted because school has taught us to conform to these stone age ideas. For the ones that don't conform to leading a "successful life" they are conforming not to conform. Truthfully they are the smart ones!