socialization
[Ge] The patterns of child‐rearing that serve to endorse behaviours and understandings of the world that are approved of by society.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
... [Ge] The patterns of child‐rearing that serve to endorse behaviours and understandings of the world that are approved of by...
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A Dictionary of Media and Communication (3 ed.)
... 1. ( enculturation ) Broadly, both formal and informal processes by which individuals adapt to the behavioural norms and values in a culture and learn to perform established social roles , acquiring many largely unconscious biases . A distinction is often made between primary socialization —learning attitudes , values, and appropriate individual behaviour, largely through family and schooling in childhood, and secondary socialization —learning by youths and adults of appropriate group behaviour, e.g. in occupational socialization. See...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
... ( enculturation ) A complex process by which individuals learn skills, attitudes, values, and patterns of behaviour that enable them to function within a particular culture. These patterns are learned from agencies such as school and home. Socialization enables members of a society to interact with one another and so pass on skills, values, beliefs, knowledge, and modes of behaviour pertaining to that society. Sport is generally regarded as playing a significant role in socialization...
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A Dictionary of Sociology (4 ed.)
...now recognized that socialization continues throughout the life-course. This is often studied through a distinction between primary and secondary socialization. It is also recognized that socialization is not simply a one-way process, in which individuals learn how to fit into society, since people may also redefine their social roles and obligations. Any understanding of socialization must therefore take account of how the process relates to social change. In this sense, some schools of sociological theory imply an allegedly ‘over-socialized conception of man...
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Dictionary of the Social Sciences
...on socialization dealt with childhood and maturation—clear instances in which the learning of social norms is central. Yet socialization is an ongoing process insofar as individuals adopt or acquire different roles in the course of their lives. Socialization was one of the primary concerns of the functionalist tradition in sociology and anthropology, which strongly emphasized its role in the operation and stable reproduction of the social order ( see functionalism ). Talcott Parsons spoke for many functionalists in describing socialization as “the...
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A Dictionary of Organizational Behaviour
... The process of learning and internalizing the norms and values of the society, social groups, or organizations inhabited. This enables norms to be inculcated and sustained and provides guidance on what values and behaviours are appropriate or seen as ‘normal’. In the organizational context it enables an employee to learn the culture and acquire the skills and knowledge to enact their role. Socialization may also occur at the informal group level, where norms may conform to or challenge organizational norms. Socialization is facilitated by the...
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A Dictionary of Public Health (2 ed.)
...socialization In sociology, the process of behavioral and value change that people undergo on joining a cohesive group, such as a class of medical students, a firm of lawyers or stockbrokers, an elite military regiment, or any other group that has its own dynamics. Not to be confused with the political process of socializing, which means using taxes to pay for a public service, such as medical and hospital care. ...
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A Dictionary of Human Resource Management (3 ed.)
...socialization is the process through which newcomers become familiar with an organization or workgroup, learn its norms and begin to share its values. There is usually a formal process of induction , whereby new employees are introduced to co-workers and managers, given a tour of the workplace, and told about rules and procedures. However, socialization is an informal, gradual process, whereby the newcomer learns about the organization and the values and beliefs of its members through social interaction, and, in turn, existing members of the organization...
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A Dictionary of Gender Studies
...socialization The process of being acculturated into a particular society. Many gender theorists regard the socialization process—how we acquire our knowledge and understanding of the society in which we live—as key to the development of gender roles in a given context, as opposed to one being born with certain inalienable traits. The toys that children are given, for example, contribute to preparing them for how a woman or a man is supposed to...
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A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
... n . 1. The process, beginning in infancy, whereby one acquires the attitudes, values, beliefs, habits, behaviour patterns, and accumulated knowledge of one’s society, through child-rearing, education, and modification of one’s behaviour to conform with the demands of the society or group to which one belongs. See also anticipatory socialization . 2. The act or process of altering something in accordance with socialist principles, as by transferring an industry to public...
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A Dictionary of Sports Studies
... The process whereby individuals become members of groups or society, sharing common understanding and experiences and learning the values that are considered central to that group or society. Social scientists have distinguished between the phases of primary socialization, experienced by the infant and the child in the home and the family, and then institutions such as the school and the mass media; and secondary socialization, when the influence of adult peers and institutions also contributes to the making of the individual. Sport may feature...
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A Dictionary of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
...socialization The process of becoming part of a group or community by adopting the norms and customs of that group....
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The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
...socialization The process by which a person becomes involved in physical activity and sport. See also socialization...
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A Dictionary of Sports Studies
...socialization Early forms of influence in the social and psychological formation and development of the child, usually associated, in orthodox Western societies, with the family unit into which the child is born. The relevance of primary socialization into sport lies in the influence of early forms of play and of gender dynamic to which the child is exposed. See also socialization...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
...socialization A process in which an individual tries to change his or her social behaviour in the expectation of joining and being accepted by another social group, which may or may not have a higher social status or class than that which the individual currently occupies. See also socialization...
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A Dictionary of Social Work and Social Care (2 ed.)
...socialization Being inducted into and learning the attitudes and behaviours that are associated with a particular occupation. For example, social workers are socialized into thinking of their work in terms of ‘cases’ of particular kinds that have particular characteristics. Although formal training plays a part in occupational socialization, informal work norms and peer group values and relationships are powerful shapers of attitudes and behaviours, as can be seen in the workplace culture of social work. A term in French— déformation...
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A Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and International Relations (4 ed.)
...socialization The process by which people come to acquire political attitudes and values. Socialization in childhood has been extensively studied. Children first acquire warm feelings towards authority figures who might appear in fairy stories (such as queens and princesses). Similarly warm feelings to elected officials (presidents, prime ministers) emerge later, party identification later again, and something like a reasoned ideology not until well into the teenage years. The earliest socialization is believed to be the deepest. Therefore one’s...
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A Dictionary of Sociology (4 ed.)
...socialization The learning of attitudes and behaviours necessary to recognized and sustainable competence within a context of employment. These include skills acquired through training, informal work norms, and peer-group values and...
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A Dictionary of Sociology (4 ed.)
...socialization In contrast to more formal training, anticipatory socialization involves the informal adoption of norms or behaviour appropriate to a status not yet achieved by the individuals concerned, so providing them with experience of a role they have yet to assume. For example, children may anticipate parenthood by observing their parents as role models, and the careerist may anticipate promotion by emulating the occupational behaviour of his or her...
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A Dictionary of Sociology (4 ed.)
...used explicitly as means of political education and re-education. In older and more stable polities, the political socialization functions of social agencies are latent rather than manifest, often subtle enough to be invisible and publicly denied. Studies of political socialization look at the degree of ideological stability over the life-cycle; the relationship between political attitudes and active participation; the selection and socialization of political elites (for example through the educational system); social class patterns of behaviour and anomalies...
