Socialization Outcomes Quotes

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

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

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

If I'm in an unusual or extreme social environment, I always want to know what it's like to grow up there and experience it as normal, everyday life. And I want to know what sort of adults these children are going to turn into.

The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

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.