Abstract
Socialization and the uses of social control involve the parent as the agent of the distribution of social rules, ideas, and action, and the child as an agent of receipt. Adaptive significance requires the wish to become a conspecific. It is not a struggle between child and parent, but a mutual learning experience. To be socialized does not involve, for the child, a passive role but an active one. The infant’s development of consciousness or objective self-awareness facilitates this process.
Don’t yell, just tell me what you want! (Overheard from a 4-year-old child to his mother)
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Lewis, M. (1991). Self-Knowledge and Social Influence. In: Lewis, M., Feinman, S. (eds) Social Influences and Socialization in Infancy. Genesis of Behavior, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2620-3_6
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