Concept information
Preferred term
socialisation
Definition
- Also known as enculturation, this refers to the process through which a person (especially a child) acquires both the knowledge and the personality necessary to become a full member of a society. It is an axiom of sociology that society is not just external to the individual self (in the obvious sense that it provides the environment in which everyone, except the hermit, must live out their lives) but is also internal and that the self is shaped by what it acquires in social interaction with parents and other significant others. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology; Socialisation]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/socialisation
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