Sociology › Section E · Socialization › Topic E.4
Socialization across the life course
Socialisation does not stop when childhood ends. Every new stage of life, from starting school to retiring, brings roles to learn, and some settings set out to strip away an old identity and build a new one.
In this topic
- A process that never finishes
- The life course perspective
- Childhood as a social construction
- Adolescence and rites of passage
- Becoming an adult
- Anticipatory socialisation
- Adulthood and later life
- Resocialisation and total institutions
- Worked example: basic training as resocialisation
- Worked example: two graduating classes
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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