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The chapter outlines the basic concepts and theories of socialization in sociology, and relates them to different arenas and agents of socialization, ranging from family and peers to modern media. The chapter examines socialization in light of social structures, social class and cultural patterns, emphasizing the strength of the culture of the taken-for-granted, as well as the child as an active subject constructing meaning in a variety of contexts. Socialization is related to development and learning as well as to children’s well-being.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Bourdieu (1977, p. 164): “Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.”

  2. 2.

    Written by Malvina Reynolds in 1962.

  3. 3.

    Sturm und Drang refers to a German movement putting stress on “free” emotional expressions; named after Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger's play, first performed in 1777.

  4. 4.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_socialization.

  5. 5.

    The term was coined by Jackson (1968).

  6. 6.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_and_Thou ; http://www.iep.utm.edu/buber/.

  7. 7.

    http://www.ibiblio.org/nmediac/winter2004/gray.html.

  8. 8.

    http://www.iep.utm.edu/lacweb/.

  9. 9.

    http://www.iep.utm.edu/zizek/.

  10. 10.

    http://nosubject.com/index.php?title=Master-Signifier.

  11. 11.

    http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/games/screen-violence-changing-young-brains-researchers-20131004-2uzom.html.

  12. 12.

    http://www.apa.org/pi/prevent-violence/resources/tv-violence.aspx.

  13. 13.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi.

  14. 14.

    In 1823, the age at which a couple in the UK could marry was lowered to 14 for boys and 12 for girls.

  15. 15.

    The term meritocracy refers to Michael Young’s (1958) combination of a science fiction novel and doctoral thesis.

  16. 16.

    Stände is translated as “status groups,” which doesn’t completely capture the stände as they existed: groups that based their power on position and lifestyle, restricted intercourse with other groups, certain status conventions and acces to economic positions that were denied to other groups. Stände points to medieval guilds, and in more modern versions, to groups based on certain professions and lifestyles; the status mechanisms of “stände” are alive in a new and changing landscape.

  17. 17.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easterlin_paradox.

  18. 18.

    The cognitive processes of taking into account anothers perspectives are referred to both as decentering and as decentering, in the rest of the book the concept of decentering will be used.

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