Exercise 1 solution

Using the Socialization page's four kinds of socialisation as the chapter reports them:

(a) A toddler learning to say "please" at home: primary socialisation. It happens in early childhood in the family, which the page says mainly influences this stage.
(b) A first-year pupil learning to put a hand up before speaking: secondary socialisation. School is the page's example of a setting that requires very different behaviour from home.
(c) A student shadowing a nurse before training as one: anticipatory socialisation. The student is rehearsing for a future occupation, which is what the page means by the term (its own example is a couple living together before marriage).
(d) A recruit adapting to military life: resocialisation. The page gives the military and prisons as examples of total institutions, where former behaviour patterns are discarded and new ones accepted.
(e) A new employee learning a workplace's unwritten rules: secondary socialisation, since the page names a new job as a secondary setting.

Hardest to classify: (e), or (c) depending on your view. A new employee is learning a new setting (secondary), but if she is also changing her habits sharply she could be said to be partly resocialised; the page does not draw the line precisely, so either answer is defensible if you give the reason. Similarly (c) could be called secondary (she is in a hospital) as well as anticipatory (she is preparing for a later role). The boundary between the four kinds is my own reading of the examples (check); the page offers examples, not a test for sorting borderline cases.