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‘Socialization is a process by which all of us acquire the culture that we transmit to the next generation’. Elaborate the statement and discuss its various stages.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Systems of Kinship

Anthony Giddens describes socialisation as the process whereby the helpless infant gradually becomes a self-aware, knowledgeable person, skilled in the ways of the culture into which he or she is born. The statement joins two moments: acquisition, where the individual internalises culture, and transmission, where society reproduces itself through that individual.

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