When studying a particular culture, many cultural practices can be observed such as language. One cultural practice that should be very significant is music. Music like language can pass down culture to generations. Cultures often organize the practice of music into groups. In America today's popular form of music would include a rock band. The same socialization processes of any other group within a society are incorporated into forming this band. The author happens to be involved in this form of group and has experienced the socialization process of forming and maintaining a band. The socialization process, social roles and social positions, the values and norms, and mechanisms of social control for a band can be analyzed just as any other peer group today.

Socialization teaches us ways to think, talk, and act that are necessary for social living, which assists in the process of passing culture on...