People can acquire cultural values, aspirations, attitudes, roles, social skills, disciplines, concern for others, concern for consequences, concern for relations to others, and social organization {socialization}|.
purposes
Socialization continues society. It fits people into society. It provides values. It orders social interactions and roles. It satisfies need for others. It creates concept of self. It pushes people to have self-discipline, independence, and maturity. It helps people feel and understand emotions. It presents people with ideal of self. It teaches habits and customs. It continues ideology. It improves efficiency and economy. It provides satisfaction to individuals. It satisfies desire for competence. It makes infancy better. It enhances value of old age. It favors large social systems.
people
People do not have instincts to control behavior. People have individual drives that conflict with other people's drives. Infants depend on adults, and development and maturation takes a long time. To adapt to society, children need to know what to do and not to do.
groups
Socialization depends on cliques, schools, and work. Schools transmit personal ideals. Work teaches attitudes about time and space and provides job specialization.
People can have rapid social-value changes {resocialization}. Resocialization can use brainwashing processes. Prisoner rehabilitation and religious conversions have resocialization. It requires complete control of individual by group, eliminating individual status or roles, downgrading previous values, encouraging self-criticism, having strong rewards and punishments, being in peer group, having personal interactions with group members, and relating old values to new values.
If socialization is in tribes or villages, people {tradition-directed person} have traditions and mores, control others by sharing, do not engage in politics, and have subsistence economy.
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