📌 Concept 9: Socialization Short Note (English)

 📌 Concept 9: Socialization

Short Note (English)

Socialization is the lifelong process through which individuals learn the culture, norms, values, roles, and social skills of their society. It begins in childhood and continues throughout life. Socialization occurs through agents like family, peers, school, religion, and media. It helps individuals become functioning members of society.

সংক্ষিপ্ত নোট (Bengali)

সোশ্যালাইজেশন (Socialization) হলো একটি আজীবন চলমান প্রক্রিয়া, যার মাধ্যমে মানুষ সমাজের সংস্কৃতি, নিয়ম, মূল্যবোধ, ভূমিকা ও সামাজিক দক্ষতা অর্জন করে। এটি শৈশব থেকে শুরু হয় এবং সারাজীবন চলতে থাকে। পরিবার, সহপাঠী, বিদ্যালয়, ধর্ম ও গণমাধ্যম সামাজিকীকরণের প্রধান মাধ্যম। এটি একজন মানুষকে সমাজের কার্যকর সদস্যে পরিণত করে।

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🔹 10 MCQs on Socialization

Q1. Socialization is the process of:
(a) Biological growth
(b) Learning culture and norms
(c) Economic development
(d) Political participation only
✅ Answer: (b)

Q2. The primary agent of socialization is:
(a) School
(b) Family
(c) Peer group
(d) Media
✅ Answer: (b)

Q3. Which sociologist said, “Socialization is the process by which the helpless infant gradually becomes a self-aware, knowledgeable person”?
(a) MacIver
(b) Giddens
(c) Durkheim
(d) Weber
✅ Answer: (b)

Q4. Secondary socialization generally occurs in:
(a) Family
(b) School and peer groups
(c) Mother-child interaction only
(d) Genetic inheritance
✅ Answer: (b)

Q5. The concept of “looking-glass self” in socialization was given by:
(a) Cooley
(b) Mead
(c) Parsons
(d) Freud
✅ Answer: (a)

Q6. Which theory explained socialization through stages of psychosexual development?
(a) Freud’s theory
(b) Mead’s theory
(c) Durkheim’s theory
(d) Marx’s theory
✅ Answer: (a)

Q7. The role of peers in socialization is:
(a) Teaching basic survival skills
(b) Teaching social independence and equality
(c) Passing down biological traits
(d) Eliminating cultural values
✅ Answer: (b)

Q8. “Generalized Other” as a stage of socialization was introduced by:
(a) Freud
(b) Mead
(c) Parsons
(d) Durkheim
✅ Answer: (b)

Q9. Resocialization refers to:
(a) Learning new roles after major life changes
(b) Early childhood learning only
(c) Genetic inheritance
(d) Informal gossip
✅ Answer: (a)

Q10. Which statement is correct about socialization?
(a) It ends after childhood
(b) It is a lifelong process
(c) It occurs only in schools
(d) It is inherited biologically
✅ Answer: (b)