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socialization en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From socialize + -ation or social + -ization.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The process of learning how to live in a way acceptable to one's own society, said especially about children.
   • Socialization skills are important things to learn in kindergarten.
2. (countable, uncountable) The act of interacting with others, of being social.
   • Forced socialization rarely creates strong friendships, but there are exceptions.
3. (countable, uncountable) Taking under government control as implementing socialism.
   • socialization of the means of production
   • No doubt he hoped, like Marx, that the socialization of production would make it possible to reconcile man's dominion over nature with the claims of his personal life, and effect a synthesis of the two. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 205:

Forms

Deriveds

desocialization · resocialization · missocialization · countersocialization · homosocialization · oversocialization

Translations (29)

cmn 社會化 /社会化 (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · pl socjalizacja (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · es socialización (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · ca socialització (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · fi sosialisaatio (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · sh социјализа́ција (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · oc socializacion (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · nl socialisatie (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · gl socialización (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · uk соціалізація (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · id sosialisasi (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · es sociabilización (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · it socializzazione (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · fr socialisation (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · sh socijalizácija (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · cs socializace (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · ja 社会化 (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · ru социализа́ция (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · de Sozialisation (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · he חִבְרוּת (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · bg общуване (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · is félagsmótun (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · gl sociabilización (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · el κοινωνικοποίηση (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · cy cymdeithasoliad (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · pt socialização (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · ms sosialisasi (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · pt sociabilização (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture) · ms pemasyarakatan (sociology: the process of learning one’s culture)