Sociological aspects of parenting styles and its effect on the child's socialization

The family provides social continuity by transferring the values and judgments of the society in which the child is in the socialization process to the child. Parents play a major role in the child's socialization process. The parents are the people with whom the child interacts, communicates first and establishes the first relations from the moment of birth. The child learns by imitating what he sees from his parents and transforms it into behavior by applying it. The child's relationship with his parent forms the basis of his social relationships. Attitudes and behaviors of parents while raising their children are parenting styles. Parents transfer their values and judgments to their children with the parenting styles they apply. The attitudes and behaviors that the parents adopt according to the parenting style they adopt determine the attitudes and behaviors exhibited by the child. Because parenting styles form the basis of the relationship between parent and child. The relationship of the parent with the child is effective on the social relations of the child. Therefore, it is important because of the social impact of parenting behaviors. In this study, parenting styles have been studied sociologically in order to understand the effects of parenting styles, which are important because of their social impact, on the socialization of the child, to transfer social values and to realize the needs created by this transfer today, and to guide researchers and parents by presenting scientific data. As a result of this research, it has been seen that the adopted parenting styles affect and shape the whole life of the child, and that their positive and negative effects have significant effects on the child's social adaptation and social continuity. In addition, it has been understood that it is necessary to increase the applications of positive parenting styles, to reduce the applications of negative parenting styles and to carry out more studies in the field of sociology due to their social effects.