Socialization

Socialization consists of those patterns of action or aspects of action which inculcate in individuals the skills (including knowledge), motives, and attitudes necessary for the performance of present and anticipated roles.

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There is a socialization which turns curious children into adult automatons in a social environment of repressive uniformity, and there is a socialization which turns selfish, impulsive children into self-aware and deliberate participants in a larger community.

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Socialization refers to the whole process by which an individual born with behavioral potentialities of enormously wide range, is confined within a much narrower range -- the range of what is customary and acceptable for him according to the standards of the group.

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Socialization through schooling, as it takes place here, and in Western societies, in general, is a priori stupefaction

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To assume that one’s existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has been socialized, is to absolutize society and confuse society with God.

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