The cycle of socialization shows how people get put into these socialized public groups. The first step in the start of socialization is being socialized before being birthed. People judge by who your parents are and how their lifestyle is. If your parents are black and living in the heart of the hood, people already socialize you as going to be nothing more than your parents. When born we get put into these categories either the minority or majority. The specific categories are gender, class, religion, sexual orientation, cultural group, ability status, and age. As we can see, we get put into all these groups without even being able to control it. Second, we get socialized by who are friends, teachers, and how we act. This is relevant to our class because this is the stage a lot of us are in. For example, being a student at St. Benedict's Prep carries great recognition and has a lot of value when people see our transcript. Third, is where we associate ourselves, extracurricular activities, religion, work, etc. These communities bombard us with messages telling us who has power and who doesn't. Not say they are always wrong, but they give biased opinions to the community members. Also, in that stage of outside communities, is the cultural socialization. We get brainwashed by our culture. For example, Christian's focus on keeping people as heterosexuals and doesn't really like homosexuals. Next, is the process of enforcing these socializations. Its wild to believe that people who try to think outside the box and go against the system gets punished, but unfortunately the system keeps how they punish underground. Mainly to keep the system looking like the good guy in every situation. A great example is the news channels, they only show what they think people want to see. Never showing the big issues around America and the world. The result of this cycle should be obvious. The cycle is made to have the majority group always win and keep the minority down. The system loves to talk about the poverty and drug issues but they are the ones bringing the drugs and keeping prices high. A way to fight back against the system is to join together with agent allies and help each other become the agents. There are five main reasons why a lot of us are still in this cycle: fear, ignorce, confusion, insecurity, and power or powerlessness. The fear of the punishments targets would face if they opposed the system. The ignorance comes from neither the targets nor agents really knowing little about the oppression in the world. The system is very confusingand that's what they want to happen. The people controlling the system don't want the community to figure it out, they just want people to live in it with no questions asked. People are insecure about oppressing the system because of how little the rebellion is. No one is really brave enough to stand up against the system. Lastly, the people with power can't help that they have powd, it is only because they gained it through the old system which hasn't changed. The powerless will always be powerless because of the existing system.