The Negative Impacts On Moral Socialization Of Adolescence From Peer Group And Educational Measures

Adolescence is the most critical period of the growth of individual.The quality of socialization at this stage will have a significant impact on the whole life of individual.Peer group is an important factor of the socialization of individual.As the children grow older,the impact becomes greater,and it climbs up to the peak during adolescence.Peer group is the independent activity from the adult's control,forming anti-mainstream culture easily,so it does harm to the moral socialization of adolescence.Under the positivist methodology,this study uses the scientific and systematic approach,as well as combines with the many theories,such as education,psychology,sociology, cultural studies and so on,in order to get a better solution of theoretical and practical problems.This article is divided into four parts.The fast part defines the conceptions of moral socialization of adolescence and peer group to lay the theoretical foundation.Through the investigation,the second part comes to the conclusion that the adverse factors of peer group set negative impact on moral awareness,moral sentiments and moral behavior of young people.Based on the theory of multi-disciplinary perspective,the third part explores in depth the reasons for the negative impacts on moral socialization of adolescence from peer group.It includes that the specificities of physical and mental development of young people,the damage from adverse sub-culture of young people and the weakening of social functions of school,family and society.In order to tackle the problem,the forth part proposes effective measures that concerning about the physical and mental development of young people,guiding the youth sub-culture scientifically, improving the social functions of school,family and society.