On Socialization Of College Students In The Network Environment

Socialization is the process in which individuals receive continuous social cultural edifying influence and learn and master concrete social behavioral norms and techniques through their contact with others in a specific social and cultural environment, and then follow the internalized social norms and techniques and maintain a health mental and physical state to assimilate themselves into the current social environment, in order to develop a sound personality and social awareness and perform acts in line with the corresponding social culturalenvironment. Socialization is of great significance for college students, because that the contemporary college students are the backbone force of accomplishing socialist cause with Chinese characters and realizing the Chinese dream. Whether they can acquire necessary knowledge, skills and social norms and gain recognition of their society to become qualified social members will determine whether they can take up the mission of the times and assume the national responsibility.However, in a special age group, college students are experiencing a stage of unbalanced development in their physiological and psychological states as well as social awareness. Owing to influencing factors such as social transformation, social development and changes, social structure differentiation, social value reconstruction, and the extended period of the college student psychological development, socialization of contemporary college students, to some extent, have become much more complex.In particular, along with the rise of network society and the popularity of network life, network has produced an increasingly distinct impact on socialization of contemporary college students, and even ranked first among influencing factors of their socialization. Owing to its timeliness, great information capacity, worldwide accessibility, interaction, functions of spreading news and other features, network has developed into one important platform for college students in their daily life and learning. However, network also gets some negative aspects. Its trans-time-space nature, virtuality and all-embracing contents and other unfavorable features have produced negative impacts on socialization of college students. Therefore, on the basis of a comprehensive evaluation of the current status of socialization of college students, besides giving full play to the positive role of the network environment and avoiding its negative effect on socialization of college students, it is quite necessary to integrate power of many parties including family, university, mass media and society and take practical measures to safeguard and guide college student to achieve realization in the complex network environment, so as to promote college students to successfully develop into healthy and useful persons.