is the process by which people learn the

requirements of their
surrounding culture and acquire values and
behaviours appropriate or necessary in that
culture. As part of this process, the
influences that limit, direct, or shape the
individual (whether deliberately or not)
include parents, other adults, and peers. If
successful, enculturation results in
competence in the language, values, and
rituals of the culture.
 also known as individuation
is the development of the distinct personality of
an individual regarded as a persisting entity (known
as personal continuity) in a particular stage of life in
which individual characteristics are possessed and
by which a person is recognized or known (such as
the establishment of a reputation).
This process defines individuals to others
and themselves. Pieces of the person's actual
identity include a sense of continuity, a sense
ofuniqueness from others, and a sense of affiliation.
 NORMS are cultural products (including values,
customs, and traditions)which represent individuals'
basic knowledge of what others do and think that
they should do. Sociologists describe norms as
informal understandings that govern individuals'
behavior in society. On the other hand, social
psychology has adopted a more general
definition, recognizing smaller group units, such as
a team or an office, may also endorse norms
separate or in addition to cultural or societal
expectations.
 in ethics, VALUES denotes the degree of importance of some
thing or action, with the aim of determining what actions are
best to do or what way is best to live (deontology), or to
describe the significance of different actions (axiology). It
may be described as treating actions themselves as abstract
objects, putting value to them. It deals with right conduct
and good life, in the sense that a highly, or at least relatively
highly, valuable action may be regarded as ethically "good"
(adjective sense), and an action of low, or at least relatively
low, value may be regarded as "bad".[citation needed] What
makes an action valuable may in turn depend on the ethic
values of the objects it increases, decreases or alters.
 Social status is the position or rank of a person or
group, within the society.
Status can be determined in two ways. One can
earn their social status by their own achievements,
which is known as achieved status. Alternatively,
one can be placed in the stratification system by
their inherited position, which is calledascribed
status.
 Role is a set of
connected behaviours,rights,obligations,beliefs,an
d norms as conceptualized by people in a social
situation.It is an expected or free or continuously
changing behaviour and may have a given
individualsocial status or social position. It is vital to
both functionalist and interactionist understandings
of society.