socialization

English

Alternative forms

• socialisation

Etymology

socialize +‎ -ation or social +‎ -ization

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Noun

socialization (countable and uncountable, plural socializations)

1. (sociology, psychology) 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. The act of interacting with others, of being social.

   Forced socialization rarely creates strong friendships, but there are exceptions.

3. Taking under government control as implementing socialism.

Derived terms

• oversocialization

Translations

sociology: the process of learning one’s culture

• Bulgarian: общуване (bg) n (obštuvane)
• Catalan: socialització (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 社會化／社会化 (zh) (shèhuìhuà)

• Czech: socializace f
• Dutch: socialisatie (nl) f
• French: socialisation (fr) f
• Galician: socialización (gl) f, sociabilización f
• German: Sozialisation (de) f
• Greek: κοινωνικοποίηση (el) f (koinonikopoíisi)
• Hebrew: חִבְרוּת (he) m (ḥivrút)
• Icelandic: félagsmótun f
• Indonesian: sosialisasi (id)
• Italian: socializzazione (it) f
• Japanese: 社会化 (ja) (しゃかいか, shakaika)
• Malay: pemasyarakatan, sosialisasi
• Polish: socjalizacja f
• Portuguese: socialização (pt) f, sociabilização f
• Russian: социализа́ция (ru) f (socializácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: социјализа́ција f

  Roman: socijalizácija (sh) f

• Spanish: socialización (es) f, sociabilización f

Further reading

• “socialization”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “socialization”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.