During this time, parents often relay their political and social views upon their children. Children also learn from the environment that the adults unconsciously create. The School Schools enlarge children's social world to include people of more diverse social backgrounds. School age children very quickly form play groups made up of one sex and race. The Peer Group A child's peer group allows them to escape the direst supervision of adults.
Children are free to act like children rather than like adults.
Peer groups become more prominent during adolescence, when young people begin to break away from the family structure, in order to feel more like young adults. Peer groups aid in the socialization process because children in certain groups conform to the ideals of that group while disliking other groups. The media plays a major role in the socialization of children. Television is the largest medium of mass media in this country. Nearly every person in the United States has a television.