Answer the following.

Discuss the role of the family in an individual’s social development stages.

The family creates the basic rights and responsibilities in an individual’s social development. It creates a way to nurture and bring up the children and makes them literate. Further, childhood and adolescence are very important stages in the process of socialization. A child learns his or her mother tongue in the family and understands the social life around him or her. Children develop as per the social situation around the family. The family teaches the children about the ways of interacting with elders and the peer group. This means, the social behaviour, its demands and taboos, indirectly controls the children. The family teaches behaviours like friendship, freedom and security during childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age in future.