Our children need socialization with their peers and…

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

— Charles Horton Cooley

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

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

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

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

— Csikszentmihaly

“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