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1. General 1.1. The term “socialization” became a basic concept in American sociology in the 1930s and 1940s. It describes all the planned and unplanned influences that a society exerts upon its growing members and the learning processes or mechanisms by which individuals adopt and appropriate these influences. It is the process by which a society reproduces itself as a sociocultural system and by which, since the socialized individual is also a productive subject, it continually evolves. Individu…