Socialization

Aristotle said that man is a social animal. The individual cannot be imagined without the society and the society without the individual. Even in the history of man kind, from the beginning to the present day tells that men has been living in a group or has lived collectively.

"Socialization is the process through which social beings develops relationships & association with each other."             - MacIver.

Human life has two main bases:

(i) Zoological base: The physical and mental abilities that the child receives from the parents at the time of birth. 

(ii) Social base. He learns to walk, eat - drink, speak, behave, read - write, exchange ideas and innumerable things like this only in the society.

The society itself does the work of transforming the zoological animal into a social animal, and that process of transformation is called socialization. 

 

There are different agencies nd social institutions, which does the socialization throughout the life of an individual. 

In the above figure, from family to marriage are considered as the primary group, and others are the secondary groups.