Socialization Agents Quotes

It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political, and moral beliefs that control our actions.

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.

I focused on how these people became how they were.

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

The lifestyle that I grew up in, it was passed on to me. I didn't know there was another world.

By the early seventeenth century, a new consensus began to arise: the idea that man was born incompetent for society and remained so unless he was provided with 'education.'

The primary problem in the psychology of becoming is to account for the transformation by which the unsocialized infant becomes an adult with structured loves, hates, loyalties, and interests, capable of taking his place in a complexly ordered society.

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.