Social education is the continuous extension and development of school and family education, and it is the education of social members, especially teenagers, by social and cultural institutions outside schools and families and related social groups or organizations. There are many social education organizations, the educational content is extensive, adaptable, timely and compensatory, and the methods are flexible and diverse. If you are good at effective use and guidance, it will inevitably have a wide and positive impact on the quality improvement of teenagers with different interests, hobbies and specialties. Through social education, students can constantly enhance their analytical ability and adaptability, experience various social roles, learn social norms, expand social contacts, develop modern quality, adapt to the needs of market economy and modern science and technology, and prepare for participating in modernization.

Social education is an education formed by spontaneously and selectively accepting certain contents from various information provided by social environment. Social education has various forms, rich contents and fast dissemination, which is the advantage of social education.

The influence of social atmosphere on children's psychology. During the period of social transformation, interpersonal relationship is complex and value orientation is diversified. Some unhealthy tendencies in society, such as entering through the back door, treating guests and giving gifts, and abusing power for personal gain, are polluting the hearts of innocent children to varying degrees. Some children also give gifts to each other and eat and drink on birthdays, festivals and further studies. Gifts have developed from birthday cards and small souvenirs in the past to valuables of several yuan or even dozens of yuan. However, the growing trend of thought in society, such as money worship, hedonism and extreme individualism, has seriously hindered students from establishing a correct outlook on life and values and affected the healthy growth of primary and secondary school students.