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socialization
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socialization [‚sō·shə·lə′zā·shən]
(psychology)
The process whereby a child learns to get along with and to behave similarly to other people in the group, largely through imitation as well as group pressure.


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What I have seen is the newer nurses become socialised to bullying.
The important point that Sennett and Cobb made is that the successful assertion of collective agency by one generation of workers can generate a political tradition within which later generations are socialised, creating solidarities that rulers find difficult to break and even in some circumstances entirely to comprehend.
From an early age, individuals are socialised to associate individual sports with masculine, feminine or neutral gender stereotypes.
 
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