I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I…

High testosterone levels have been proven to make men more likely to commit crimes. The tendency in men toward risky behaviour keeps turning up…

— Rodney Stark

“The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments.”

— Csikszentmihaly

Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The trick of…

— Carlos Castaneda

We will no longer be led only by that half of the population whose socialization, through toys, games, values and expectations, sanctions violence as…

— Wilma Scott Heide

“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

— Steven Pinker

There are certain functions that the family performs. In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction, while at…

— Adrian Wilson

“The students would burn out if forced to spend their entire day amidst the social intensity of the cafeteria and hallway. Fortunately the school…

— David Brooks

Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that actually there…

— Ian Bogost

It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to…

— Ayn Rand

On the other hand, the Internet is there to fill needs that people have for information and socialization. We get this sort of identification…

— Edward Snowden

Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Our children need socialization with their peers and playing sports is a large part of that.

— Nicole Malliotakis

“I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power to languauge”

— Preston and Child