Socialization (or socialisation) refers to the lifelong process of inheriting and disseminating norms, customs and ideologies of a society.

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Socialization may also refer to:

• Socialization (economics), the process of establishing social ownership of the means of production and/or a system of production for use
• Socialization (Marxism), the process within capitalism of transforming a solitary economic activity into a collective endeavor
• Socialization of animals, process of training animals to be kept by humans in close relationships
• Political socialization, the study of the developmental processes by which children and adolescents acquire political cognition, attitudes, and behaviors
• Social relation, any relationship between two or more individuals
• Conversation, spontaneous communication between two or more people
• Socialized medicine, particularly the adoption of such a system

• Academic discourse socialization
• Anticipatory socialization
• Consumer socialization
• Primary socialisation
• Reciprocal socialization
• Socialism

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