Editing Socialization (section)

== History ==
{{See also|History of sociology}}
Notions of [[society]] and the [[state of nature]] have existed for centuries.<ref name="Clausen"/>{{rp|20}} In its earliest usages, socialization was simply the act of socializing or another word for [[socialism]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Fourier and his partisans|work=The London Phalanx|date=6 September 1841|page=505|language=en|hdl=2027/pst.000055430180}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Gentleman's Magazine|date=1851|publisher=F. Jefferies|page=465|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lBU2AQAAMAAJ&q=edenism+savageism&pg=PA465|access-date=2 April 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=socialization, n.|website=OED Online|date=March 2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/183747|access-date=2 April 2017}}</ref><ref name="Martin">{{cite thesis|last1=St. Martin|first1=Jenna|title="Socialization": The Politics and History of a Psychological Concept, 1900-1970|type=Master's Thesis|date=May 2007|url=http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_mas_theses/2|access-date=2 April 2017|publisher=Wesleyan University|language=en}}</ref> Socialization as a concept originated concurrently with sociology, as sociology was defined as the treatment of "the specifically social, the process and forms of socialization, as such, in contrast to the interests and contents which find expression in socialization".<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Simmel|first1=Georg|author-link=Georg Simmel|title=The Problem of Sociology|journal=The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science|date=1 January 1895|volume=6|issue=3|pages=52–63|doi=10.1177/000271629500600304|jstor=1009553|s2cid=143284719|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1448678}}</ref> In particular, socialization consisted of the formation and development of social groups, and also the development of a social state of mind in the individuals who associate. Socialization is thus both a cause and an effect of [[social relation|association]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Giddings|first1=Franklin Henry|author-link=Franklin Henry Giddings|title=The theory of socialization. A syllabus of sociological principles.|date=1897|publisher=The Macmillan company|location=New York|pages=1–2|url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030235091#page/n17/mode/2up|access-date=2 April 2017}}</ref> The term was relatively uncommon before 1940, but became popular after [[World War II]], appearing in dictionaries and scholarly works such as the theory of [[Talcott Parsons]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Morawski|first1=Jill G.|last2=St. Martin|first2=Jenna|title=The evolving vocabulary of the social sciences: The case of "socialization".|journal=History of Psychology|date=2011|volume=14|issue=1|page=2|doi=10.1037/a0021984|pmid=21688750|url=https://works.bepress.com/jmorawski/7/download/|access-date=2018-04-20|archive-date=2017-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922034840/https://works.bepress.com/jmorawski/7/download/|url-status=dead}}</ref>