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In what way is the process of socialization helpful in the development of personality? Explain with suitable examples.

  • UPSC 2002
  • Systems of Kinship

Personality is the organised and relatively enduring pattern of a person's attitudes, habits, traits and self-conception. The human infant is born with plasticity but without a self. Socialisation is the process through which that potential becomes a person. Its contribution is best shown by what it builds, stage by stage, and by what happens in…

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