Quotes About Socialization

No guy wants to come apart in front of his significant other," Ellery snapped. "There are entire books written about the fact that men are socialized to communicate worse than twelve-year-old boys at a sock-hop.

expose youngsters to happy, positive experiences with a variety of strangers, locations and other pets. That helps them learn that other people, places, and critters can be fun and not scary.

Socialization impacts your kitten on the most basic level. It refers to the sensitive period in your kitten's development when he learns from positive and negative events. The prime socialization period for kittens falls between two to seven weeks of age; however, socialization continues through 12 to 16 weeks and also has an impact.

I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, 'Why don't you go to the dance with the boys?' And I'm going, 'No, I'm perfectly happy.' I think my parents thought I was definitely weird.

It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

Play seems to be one of the first activities inhibited by the presence of an observer until a group becomes well habituated. For this reason, I consider it more common than previously thought.

I've never had tastes of people my own age. All of my friends when I was 15 were in their 40s. I'm not actually mature, just very self-conscious around people my own age because I feel like I'm supposed to act the same way they act and I don't know how.

I was painfully shy when I was a kid. I always thought when most people were born, part of the toolkit was teaching you how to relate to other people - and it was just left out of my toolkit.

The character you seem to have been born with is not necessarily who you are; beyond the characteristics you have inherited, your parents, your friends, and your peers have helped to shape your personality

The reason is simple—humans are extremely susceptible to the moods, emotions, and even the ways of thinking of those with whom they spend their time.

When you go into society, leave behind your own ideas and values, and put on the mask that is most appropriate for the group in which you find yourself.

By ages four through six, kids in cultures from around the world respond negatively when they are the ones being shortchanged. It isn't until ages eight through ten that kids respond negatively to someone else being treated unfairly.

Young humans are like chimps—six-year-olds not only prefer to be with kids like themselves (by whatever criteria) but readily say so. It isn't until around age ten that kids learn that some feelings and thoughts about Thems are expressed only at home, that communication about Us/Them is charged and contextual.60

Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

T]he secret of all successful 'socialization' is making individuals wish to do what is needed to enable the system to reproduce itself.

Modern political democracy, if it restricts itself to the purely political sphere, cannot sufficiently counteract the results of the economic insignificance of the average individual. But purely economic concepts like socialization

children are trained to want to do as the society says they have to do.

Socialization means the formation of human beings out of helpless, dependent animal matter.

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200 000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

The truth is many of us have been socialized to think that if we are not the very best, if we are not at the top 1 percent of whatever it is we do, then we are not good enough. To reinforce this already pervasive mental model, society has established a competitive hierarchy for just about everything.

My father was an individualist, and I took after him. At school, however, one is forced to be gregarious. I didn't resent this, but I didn't particularly enjoy it, and whenever I could, I withdrew into my own private world.

I had been taught that if I cried, to be quiet about it, so whereas I never howled, the least thing made me cry both at school and at home. Crying tends to separate a child from other children, for even children dislike a cry baby, and I had no friends in the world.