Importance of Socialisation
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The Importance of Socialisation
The process of social interaction through which people acquire personality and learn the way of life of their society and culture is socialisation. Socialisation enables the individual to learn the norms, values, languages, skills, beliefs and other patterns of thought and action that are essential for social living. Socialisation continues throughout the life course, which is broken up into stages. These stages in order, infancy, childhood, adolescence, youth, mature adulthood and old age. At each of these stages we learn and encounter new or changing conditions, both personal and social, which we must learn to adjust to. Most of the important socialisation occurs during infancy and childhood where the startings of later personality are laid.
Cognitive development is one of the things that make up socialisation. Cognitive development is when you are learning to think. The way we explain it, is by using Jean Piaget's (1896-1980) theory. Her theory has 4 stages that are categorized in particular kinds of operations or intellectual processes that a person at that stage can perform...