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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Socialization and personality.

  • UPSC 1990
  • Systems of Kinship

Personality is the relatively stable organisation of an individual's attitudes, motives, habits and ways of acting, which Gordon Allport (1937) called the "dynamic organisation" that shapes a person's adjustment to the environment. Socialisation is the lifelong process by which a biological infant learns a society's culture and becomes a social self. The sociological claim is…

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  • Evidence that personality is socially made
  • How socialisation builds personality
  • Agencies and differences
  • Limits of the socialisation view
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