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Culture And Socialisation

Question
CBSEENSO11022831

“Socialization makes human individual a social beings.” Explain.

Solution
1. Socialization makes human individual a social being. Without socialization, individuals would not behave like human beings.

2. Even the human style of speaking and modes of communication are the functions of socialization. Keep an infant, right after birth, for a considerable period of time, away from the company of human being, you shall not find the development of any human characteristic other than biological in the infant (or the child).

3. Even the style of walking and taking meal of a person is culturally determined and an infant or child kept away from society would not be able to learn it.

4. Example : The best example here would be the so called ‘wolf-children of Midnapore’.Two females aged two and eight were reportedly found in a wolf den in Bengal in 1920. They walked like animals on four legs (i.e. on their two hands and on their two legs) as the man in beginning of the stone age used to do. These babies preferred a diet of raw meat, howled like wolves, and lacked any type of speech.