SOCIAL MEDIA IMPACT ON PRIMARY EDUCATION CYCLE CHILDREN'S SECONDARY SOCIALIZATION

Abstract

Socialization can be understood as the fundamental process of transmitting culture and social organization to the next generations, thus ensuring the continuity, stability and perpetuation of society. (Schifirne?, 2004, 67). Within European societies and not only them, family is, or should be, the most important socialization agent. Lately, alongside school and the group of friends, social media became an important factor in the socialization of young generations, as the interaction of the young through socialization networks increases so quickly. Parents should supervise them carefully but because of their lack of time and sometimes ignoring the impact of socialization networks on the child's socialization process, they leave small school age children much too free. One of the real problems is that more and more children use network socialization web sites but many of them do not take the necessary measures to protect online. The purpose of the study is to investigate the weight of online socialization networks in the socialization process of primary education cycle pupils, the time spent by children on such networks and online computer games, the parents' manner of supervising the computer activity, the parents' management of the children's leisure time. The general working hypotheses of this study are: 1. There are significant differences between the pupils in the urban environment and those in the rural environment as regards the time spent on the computer on socialization networks. 2. There are significant differences between the parents of the pupils in the urban environment and the parents of the pupils in the rural environment as regards the supervision of the children's computer activity. The methodology used in this investigative approach is the questionnaire applied on a group of 125 pupils from primary school from urban and rural areas and their parents. The questionnaires were applied through the teachers at such classrooms. The Findings and Results of this study have aimed at the verification of research hypotheses. The working hypotheses have been confirmed following data processing and interpretation.