Quotes About Socialization

As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew.

I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.

Chemicals were easier to procure than friends, and when I wanted to play with them they never said they had to stay home to wash their hair or, less politely, that they didn't associate with weirdos.

can't do this. I suck at this. Which is why they're making me go. Not to improve my swimming—who cares about that?—but to work on that whole playing-well-with-others thing. Another one of my broken bits. I don't want to socialize with other kids. I don't trust 'em, I don't like 'em, and best I can tell, the feeling's mutual.

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

Toys are intriguing, and I want to see what I can do with them. On a deeper level, they represent one way that society socializes its young

Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society.

Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.

He rubbed his hands. For, of course, they didn't content themselves with merely hatching out embryos: any cow could do that. We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future... He was going to say future World Controllers, but correcting himself, said future Directors of Hatcheries instead.

Have you ever watched a group of boys together? Look at them. They punch one another. They push. There's a lot of aggression, even if it looks like friendly aggression. It's really odd, but it explains a lot about how males are. And about the world, I suppose. About wars and ecological irresponsibility and bad behaviour generally.

White-supremacist-patriarchal-heteronormative-capitalism socializes us to aspire to "good Negro" status. It convince little Black girls from East Oakland to graduate from Howard—summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, to pledge the oldest Black sorority, to earn PhDs, to be in the "right" rooms…" - Melina Abdullah

In The Woman Reader Kate Flint argues that "the study of reading...involves examining a fulcrum: the meeting-place of discourses of subjectivity and socialization." Reading has traditionally been "a prime tool in socialization" and is "centrally bound in with questions of authority".

Male and female babies may be born. But those complex, gender-loaded individuals we call men and women are produced. The complex assembly line includes all of our socialization processes, of which the acquisition of scientific knowledge is but one. Since our culture offers a privileged place to science, however, it is an especially important one.

I think we are all programmed to please as we grow up.

Good home-school educational plans have the kids in groups with other children often and consistently. Because common sense dictates that isolating people is never good and home-schooled children really benefit from being in those type of programs.

I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.

You're supposed to go to prom during high school. I don't go to high school. I homeschool.

To publish – the socialization of one's self. A vile necessity! But still not a real act, since it's the publisher who makes money, the printer who produces. It at least has the merit of being incoherent.

To be published = the socialization of the self. What a base necessity!

When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must not be with them, if this isolation is the absolute result and cannot be avoided, in the child's mind a basis is laid for the experience that one must be alone when one makes oneself unpleasant or disagreeable.

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.

Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.

When I see these kids 6 years old with a private coach, and at 7, they have a fitness coach, I'm like, 'Aw, come on.' At 12, it's for sure they will lose all the interest in tennis because they do not interact with other kids.

It is a victory for the empire, but not for the kingdom of God, that if you are "too big to fail" it means that your rewards are privatized but your risks are socialized. You can gamble with other people's money, and if you win, you win. But if you lose, we lose. I don't know what economic model that is, but it's not God's economy, so I say, for the love of God … RESIST!