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socialization in Bangladesh

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Submitted To: Farhida Islam
Lecturer,
Faculty of Business Administration

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Eastern University

8/25/2009

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Submitted By: Md. Nahmidur Rahman
Id # 091200115,
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Semester: Summer, 2009

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Table of Content
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Introduction

Internet is one of the youngest and fastest growing media in today’s world. The internet is

spreading widely throughout every corner of the world and it seems like the growth is still in

progress and will reach the peak of its popularity and usage in coming days. There are two

groups of Web content. One, which we would call the "surface" Web is what everybody

knows as the "Web," a group that consists of static, publicly available web pages, and which

is a relatively small portion of the entire Web. Another group is called the "deep" Web, and it

consists of specialized Web-accessible databases and dynamic web sites, which are not

widely known by "average" surfers, even though the information available on the "deep"

Web is 400 to 550 times larger than the information on the "surface."

In recent times internet is playing key role in the socialization process. Though there is not

always the positive aspect of internet, in times the negative aspects also come into the focus.
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Statement of the problem:

Internet is the most common way to connect with the world now a day. It has brought

both negative and positive affect in the process of socialization. This affect continues in

Bangladesh also. Recently there has been a revolution in the development of social

networks like- My space, Tagged, Facebook and many more. These social networks are

affecting the youths both positively and negatively. Youths are getting social through

these networks.

Objective of the study:

The study aims to find out how Internet is playing a significant role in the process of

socialization in Bangladesh.

i) How Facebook is playing role in the trends of youths?

ii) How the young generation is affected by internet specifically facebook?

Assumption:

By affecting the young generation, Facebook is playing a vital and important role in the

process of socialization in Bangladesh.

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Chapter # 1

Socialization

Socialization is the process whereby the helpless infant gradually becomes a self-aware,

knowledgeable person, skilled in the ways of culture into which he or she was born.

Socialization is defined from different point of view, some of which are given below-

 Sci-Tech Dictionary:

socialization

(psychology) The process whereby a child learns to get along with and to behave

similarly to other people in the group, largely through imitation as well as group

pressure.

 Encyclopedia

socialization

the process whereby an individual learns to adjust to a group (or society) and behave

in a manner approved by the group (or society). According to most social scientists,

socialization essentially represents the whole process of learning throughout the life

course and is a central influence on the behavior, beliefs, and actions of adults as well

as of children.
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Socialization can be of two types-

Primary socialization

Primary socialization occurs when a child learns the attitudes, values, and actions appropriate

to individuals as members of a particular culture. For example if a child saw his/her mother

expressing a discriminatory opinion about a minority group, then that child may think this

behavior is acceptable and could continue to have this opinion about minority groups.

Secondary socialization

Secondary socialization refers to the process of learning what is appropriate behavior as a

member of a smaller group within the larger society. It is usually associated with teenagers

and adults, and involves smaller changes than those occurring in primary socialization. e.g.

entering a new profession, relocating to a new environment or society.

According to G.H.Mead – Mind, self and society that human beings begin their

understanding of the social world through “Play” and “Game”. He describes the process of

the development of self mainly with four concepts, like Role taking, The Generalized other

and ‘I’ and ‘Me’.

Role Taking: Mead noted that, infants and young children first of all developed by social

beings by imitating the actions of those around them. Mead called this “Role Taking”. The

child takes different roles he or she observes in ‘adult’ Society.

The Generalized Other: This is the process of learning the values and moral rules of the

culture in which they are developing. By playing the role children go under the process of

“The Generalized Other”, which is one of the main concepts Mead proposes for

understanding the emergence of the social life in human beings. Through understanding “The
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Generalized Other“ the individual understands what kind of behavior is expected, appropriate

and so on, in different social settings. The family, Baseball team, School and the society are

the examples of the social settings

Agents of Socialization

Agents of socialization are the people and groups that influence our self-concept, emotions,

attitudes, and behavior.

1. The Family. Family is responsible for the youth and ..., among other things,

determining one's attitudes toward religion and establishing career goals.

2. Education. Education is the agency responsible for socializing groups of young people

in particular skills and values in society.

3. Peer groups. Peers refer to people who are roughly the same age and/or who share

other social characteristics (e.g., students in a college class).

4. The Mass Media.

5. Other Agents: Religion, Work Place, The State

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Chapter # 2

Facebook and its History

Mark Zuckerberg, 23, founded Facebook while studying psychology at Harvard University.

He is a keen computer programmer; Mr Zuckerberg had already developed a number of

social-networking websites for fellow students, including Coursematch, which allowed users

to view people taking their degree, and Facemash, where people could rate people's

attractiveness.

In February 2004

Mr Zuckerberg

launched "The

facebook", as it

was originally

known; the name

taken from the

sheets of paper

distributed to

freshmen, profiling students and staffs. Within 24 hours, 1,200 Harvard students had signed

up, and after one month, over half of the undergraduate students had their individual profile.

The network was promptly extended to other Boston universities, the Ivy League and

eventually all US universities. It became Facebook.com in August 2005 after the address was

purchased for $200,000. US high schools started signing up from September 2005, and then it

began to spread worldwide, reaching UK universities the following month.

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As of September 2006, the network was extended beyond educational institutions to anyone

with a registered email address. The site remains free to join, and makes a profit through

advertising revenue. Yahoo and Google are among companies which have expressed interest

in a buy-out, with rumored figures of around $2bn (£975m) being discussed. Mr Zuckerberg

has so far refused to sell.

The site's features have continued to develop during 2007. Users can now give gifts to

friends, post free classified advertisements and even develop their own applications - graffiti

and Scrabble are particularly popular.

Some of the applications offered by Facebook are listed below-

1. Top Friends. Flatter the users best mates by putting them in the Top Friends box

2. Tetris Tournament. Play Tetris and reduce users friends' high scores to dust

3. Training. App that tracks users fitness regime, and compares it to other friends so

he/she can offer mutual support

4. iLike. Barnstorming Music 2.0 application that let the user share music and show off

tune knowledge in the competition

5. Zombies. It's actually fun infecting even more

6. My Aquarium. Users own virtual fishtank, which can only be populated by friends

sending him/her fish

7. Beers. Buy virtual beers for friends. Not as much fun as buying real beers in the real

world, but better for the user’s waistline

8. SkypeMe. Make Skype calls from within Facebook, which makes the user a bonafide

Web 2.0 media node in own right

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Chapter # 3

Implications of Facebook in Society

According to professional Social Network Writers and professional Social Network Services,

the comparatively open nature of information provided by Facebook participants and the lack

of confidentiality controls enacted, users are putting themselves at threat of both online

(identity theft) and off-line (stalking).

Facebook enables individuals to articulate their social networks, present themselves, and

view each other's profiles, gather friends who can send messages on pages and maintain or

establish connections with others. This site is oriented towards romantic relationship

initiation, work related contexts, college student population and linking those with common

interests such as politics or music.

Participants can use Facebook to communicate with people they know off-line or to meet new

people. It is also possible for Facebook members to join virtual groups depending on shared

interests, learn each other's interests, hobbies, romantic relationship status and musical tastes

by browsing through different profiles and see what courses they have in common.
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Chapter # 4

Methodology

• The research has been conducted in Mohammadpur and Dhanmondi area by the

researcher.

• The focus group was mainly the university goer’s aged between18 to 21.

• The method used by the researcher is Interview Method.

• The researcher used 19 open-ended questions to collect information from the

interviewee.
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Chapter # 5

Findings and Case study

Case Study # 1

• Name : Md. Toufatur Rahman

• Age : 20

• Sex : Male

• Occupation : Student

Mr. Toufatur has a facebook account. He regularly uses facebook. He spends 30 to 45

minutes every time he sits in facebook. He uses to sit 3/4 times a day. According to him

facebook gave him opportunity to interact and share with his friends’ home and abroad

easily. He thinks he came to learn different informative things from facebook. He has made

a wide range of friends in home and abroad through facebook. He thinks facebook

relationships can be broken easily and those are not trustworthy. He did not find facebook

as a source of education to him. He has few foreign friends and he came to know about

their norms, values and tradition through facebook. He declared that in some cases

facebook is harmful for students like him. He noted that the privacy is the main problem of

facebook.

From this interview it is clear that Mr. Toufatur is a regular facebook user. Facebook has

become a part and parcel of his life. Facebook has provided him a lot of friends. He learned

the cultures of his foreign friends and shared his culture also.
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Case Study # 2

• Name : Abdullahil Kafi

• Age : 20

• Sex : Male

• Occupation : Student

Mr. Kafi has a facebook account. He doesnot use facebook regularly. But on weekends he

sits in his pc and checks his facebook account.He spends 30 to 40 minutes roughly per

week. He interacts and shares his feelings mainly on instant messengers and he dislikes

sharing on facebook. Though Kafi dislikes facebook’s faces,he has some friends and he

likes some facebook applications. He made two relationships from facebook friends and he

is happy with it. He found facebook groups informative to him. He also has some foreign

friends and interacts with them often. He thinks facebook is spoiling the youths especially

the school goers are mainly affected by it.

Mr. Kafi is not a regular facebook user but he likes to use the applications of facebook. He

said that except the relationships he made from facebook he did not adopt anything from

facebook in his life.

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Case Study # 3

• Name : Faridur Rahman

• Age : 19

• Sex : Male

• Occupation : Student

Mr. Farid has a facebook account. He regularly uses facebook. He spends 1-2 hours every

day whenever he sits in facebook. He sits in facebook twice a day. He likes the different

types of application in facebook. Through facebook he made a huge circle of friends and he

interacts with them regularly. He believes in facebook relationships though he was bluffed

by two relations he made from facebook. According to him facebook has no negative

aspects rather than to connect with others. He found facebook informative and educative as

well. He likes the sharing system of facebook.

From the interview we came to know that Mr. Farid is a facebook freak. Though he was

bluffed twice, he is still eager to make relationship and he learned many information’s from

the groups of facebook

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Case Study # 4

• Name : Saiful Ehsan

• Age : 21

• Sex : Male

• Occupation : Student

Mr. Saif has a fcebook account. He uses facebook regularly. He uses to sit 15 to 20 minutes

in facebook. He made a number of friends from facebook and they are his classmates also.

He thinks facebook cannot provide any information to its users. He is not interested in

making foreign friends because he does not like making unknown friends. He does not

believe in making relationships through facebook. From his point of view, facebook has

exposing the personal life of individuals and hampering privacy. He likes facebook but he

thinks it should be developed more to increase its popularity among others though it is the

number1 social network at the moment in the world.

Mr. Saif is a semi-regular user of facebook. He is not interested in using all the facebook

applications and features. He opposed the system of uploading pictures in facebook. He

pointed that though facebook says these pictures are deleted when the users delete it but

actually those are stored in the web that cannot be deleted.

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Case Study # 5

• Name : Sanjid Hasan

• Age : 20

• Sex : Male

• Occupation : Student

Mr. Sanjid is a regular facebook user who stays online through his mobile phone when he

is far from his pc. He spends his all day in internet browsing. Facebook allows him to

interact with his cousins and friends in abroad. He loves the applications especially he likes

horoscope, triot card, which car describe you etc. applications. He has a lot of friends’ age

range from 16 to 40 in his friends list. He likes to make relationships through facebook,

though he does not continue those relationships more than two or three months. He likes

facebook’s privacy policy and he trust facebook. He in not interested in taking educative or

informative aspects of facebook.

Actually, Sanjid uses facebook only he is habituated of using it. Facebook does not provide

anything important to him and he refused to learn anuthing form it. He has not adopted much

things in his life from facebook.

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Case Study # 6

• Name : Alim-Al-Raji

• Age : 21

• Sex : Male

• Occupation : Student

Mr. Alim has recently opened a facebook account. He is getting familiar with the facebook

day by day. He spends a healthy amount of time in facebook. Whenever he gets time in his

university he uses facebook. He does not have internet connection in his home though he

goes to cyber café for checking and using facebook. He likes all the applications of

facebook and getting familiar with those regularly. He likes the groups and dislikes the

invitation that comes regularly sent by his friends. He thinks facebook should be stricter on

their privacy policy. According to him facebook is making the young generation home-sick

(home loving). Though he is a new user of facebook, he is facing the difficulties of making

numerous unknown friends.

Facebook is a new concept to Mr. Alim but after using it he came to know the negative

aspects of it and aware of it. Facebook has changed his lifestyle and made him conscious

about himself.

Conclusion
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Internet has made our life easy and made us tech savvy. We use internet on our regular

educational, official, even in informal meetings and gatherings. Internet has different

implications on our society. Facebook is an example of social networking started few years

ago and spreading its implications both positively and negatively.

From interviews stated in the report we pointed out how facebook is influencing the young

generations. Facebook is providing informative and educative things to its users and they are

benefited from it. On the other hand facebook applications and privacy settings seem weaken

to many which may cause future problem any time.

In Conclusion it has been described clearly that like everything internet is playing a key role

in the process of Bangladesh. And in doing that it is proving a famous line of Sir Isaac

Newton’s Law of motions -“To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”

Bibliography:
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• Giddens, A.(2006) Sociology: UK: Polity

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• "Sizing the Internet," Cyveillance, http://www.cyveillance.com/resources/library.asp

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APPENDIX

Interview Schedule

1. Name :

2. Age :

3. Sex :

4. Occupation :

5. Do you have any Facebook account?

6. How regular do you use Facebook?

7. How much time you spend regularly on Facebook?

8. Do you think Facebook provides educational things to you?

9. Do you think Facebook provides informative things to you?

10. Have you made any friends through Facebook?

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11. Have you made any relationship through Facebook?

12. How many friends you have made through Facebook?

13. Have you made any foreign friends through Facebook?

14. What things you have learned from your foreign friends?

15. Do you think Facebook groups are informative to you?

16. From your point of view, what are the negative sides of Facebook?

17. What are the advantages of Facebook than other social networks?

18. What things you have adopted in your life from Facebook?

19. What is your overall opinion about Facebook:

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