socialization
/səʊʃ(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n
/(also socialisation)
noun [mass noun]
1The activity of mixing socially with others: socialization with students has helped her communication skills...
- Some critics say that keeping children at home with limited socialization is unhealthy for kids.
- Apparently lone otters seek some socialization with other otters.
- They are expected to maintain their heritage culture through socialization with immigrant parents and members of their ethnic community.
2The process of learning to behave in a way that is acceptable to society: pre-school starts the process of socialization...
- Adults play an important role in the socialization of children.
- By the silent movie era, public discourse about children focused on their safety and proper socialization.
- She provides a potent forum for personal reflections on reconciling one's childhood with issues of socialisation and survival.
3Organization of an industry or company according to the principles of socialism: planned economic growth was accompanied by the socialization of agriculture...
- As a result of this 'coercive socialization', the global economy in effect dictates the kinds of economic policies to be pursued by states.
- Liberalism was to be an instrument for the active socialization of states, by holding out to them the costs in lost sovereignty of their failure to conform.
- The cause of their poverty was seen to be 'dependent capitalism', and the remedy the socialization of the private ownership of the means of production.