<p>This text offers a comprehensive and integrated overview of the socialization of the child in modern society. By focusing on theory, social class, ethnic groups and communities, and the role of such agencies of socialization as the family, school, peer groups, and mass media. Competing views on basic issues and related controversy corner students' interests and inspire discussion and independent thinking. As a paperback, it is useful as either a primary or supplementary text.</p>

The Child and Society: The Process of Socialization, 2nd Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Frederick Elkin

Gerald Handel

Sociology

Random House]

The focus of this study is on socialization in everyday life in modern society. Two types of material especially relevant to socialization are touched on: that gathered by anthropologists describing patterns in other societies and that accumulated by psychologists in laboratory experiments and other more precisely controlled situations.

The child and society: The process of socialization

Anthropology

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