What is the meaning of sociallization ?
HI,
Socialization is a process interacts with others and shape as well as mold his/her personality according to the prescribed norms of a society .
Functions of Socialization in the Society :-
- It converts humans from biological being to social being
- It contributes in personality development
- It helps to become disciplined
- It helps to perform different roles
- It establishes knowledge and skills
- It contributes in the stability of social order
- It transmits culture from one generation to other
- It creates right aspirations in social life.
The newborn is merely an organism. Socialisation makes him responsive to the society. He is socially active. He becomes a ‘Purush’ and the culture that his group inculcates in him, humanises him, and makes him ‘Manusha’. The process indeed, is endless. The cultural pattern of his group, in the process gets incorporated in the personality of a child. It prepares him to fit in the group and to perform the social roles. It sets the infant on the line of social order and enables an adult to fit into the new group. It enables the man to adjust himself to the new social order.
Socialisation stands for the development of the human brain, body, attitude, behaviour and so forth. Socialisation is known as the process of inducting the individual into the social world. The term socialisation refers to the process of interaction through which the growing individual learns the habits, attitudes, values and beliefs of the social group into which he has been born.
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