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Socialization is the lifelong process by which individuals learn the norms, customs, and ideologies necessary to participate in their own society. It is the primary way cultural continuity is maintained between generations and involves acquiring the skills needed to function as a member of one's culture. Unlike other species whose behavior is innate, humans must learn their culture through social experiences during development. Key theorists who studied socialization include George Herbert Mead, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Horton Cooley.

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Socialization" Is A Term Used by

Socialization is the lifelong process by which individuals learn the norms, customs, and ideologies necessary to participate in their own society. It is the primary way cultural continuity is maintained between generations and involves acquiring the skills needed to function as a member of one's culture. Unlike other species whose behavior is innate, humans must learn their culture through social experiences during development. Key theorists who studied socialization include George Herbert Mead, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Horton Cooley.

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“Socialization” is a term used by on what other people perceive

sociologists, social and confirm other people’s


psychologists, anthropologists, political opinion on themselves. 
scientists, and educationalists to refer to
George Herbert Mead
the lifelong process of inheriting and - theory of social behaviorism
disseminating norms, customs, and - social experience develops an
ideologies, providing an individual with individual’s personality. Mead’s
the skills and habits necessary for central concept is the self: the
participating within his or her own part of an individual’s personality
society. composed of self-awareness and
self-image.
Socialization is thus “the means by - Mead claimed that the self is not
which social and cultural  continuity are there at birth rather it is
attained.”  developed with social
experience. 
Socialization is the means by which
Sigmund Freud
human infants begin to acquire the
- Austrian neurologist
skills necessary to perform as a
- founded the discipline of 
functioning member of their society and psychoanalysis
is the most influential learning process - Freud proposed that the human
one can experience. Unlike other living psyche could be divided into three
species, whose behavior is biologically parts: Id, ego, and super-ego.
set, humans need social experiences to - The id is  the completely
unconscious
learn their culture and to survive.
-  The ego acts according to the
Although cultural variability manifests in reality  principle
the actions, customs, and behaviors of - super-ego aims for perfection
whole social groups, the most -
fundamental expression of culture is 

Charles Horton Cooley in 1902


- looking-glass self is a social
psychological concept
- stating that a person’s self grows
out of society’s  interpersonal
interactions and the perceptions
of others
- The term refers to
people shaping themselves
based on other people’s
perception, which leads people
to reinforce other people’s
perspectives on themselves.
People shape themselves based

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