Socialization Process 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.

The problem is my kids are liberal, maybe too liberal, and I have no one to blame but myself because I introduced them to Uncle O.J.

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

Man is a child of his environment.

Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger.

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

Again and again, people get more conservative as they get older.

Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process.

We're all products of our own environment.

In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child break forth again when the struggle for existence - of the individual in society, of the society in the life of the state - begins. These passions are not transformed by the prevalent education of the day, but only repressed.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly.

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

Well let me just say, for a man, a lot of how your approach and you're dealing with women comes from your mom.

I hated women before I went to prison. I always felt like women were trying to tear each other down.

My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

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.

Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

We all have baggage from our upbringing! That's life!

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the teachings of his parents, his brothers, sisters, playmates, and later of other people FORCE HIM to acknowledge the advantages of social cooperation and accordingly to change his behavior.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

What we recall as children is a version of what's happening around us.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.