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Deliberate socialization – a socialization process when there is a deliberate and purposeful intent to convey values, attitudes, knowledge, skills etc.

Extrovert – a person who tends to focus on the outer world and external events.

Frustrated personality – personality characterized by low self-assessment and depressive state.

Hedonistic materialist – a person who is oriented to satisfy his needs as consumer.

Homo consumer – a modern consumer, or personality moulded by mass society (by R. Dahrendorf).

Homo faber – a “working man”in the traditional society, or personality allotted with an important public function (by R. Dahrendorf).

Homo soveticus – a person depending on the state (by R. Dahrendorf).

Homo universalis – a person with the aptitude to perform various activities (by R. Dahrendorf).

Human being – a particular representative of mankind.

Idealist – a person who is critical towards traditional norms and firmly determined to self-development.

Individual – a particular representative of mankind.

Individuality – a set of qualities or characteristics distinguishing one person from another at the biological, psychological, social and other levels.

Introvert – a person who tends to focus on his inner world of ideas and experiences.

Man – a most common, generic concept for a representative of mankind.

One-dimensional man – a person who perceives informational stereotypes and moulds simplified schemes of seeing phenomena as black-and-white (by H. Marcuse).

Person – a particular representative of mankind.

Personality – a concept introduced to focus on the individual’s social nature.

Primary socialization – a socialization process which occurs in infancy and childhood and is the most intense period of cultural learning.

Psychological analysis – a psychological perspective of Sigmund Freud who considered a person as hedonist, or striving for getting satisfaction, with the society as a system of constraints and taboos.

Psychological structure (of personality) – a structure which includes personality’s subjective qualities such as various emotions, feelings, memory, abilities etc.

Realist – a person who can combine his strive for self-realization with a developed sense of duty.

Re-socialization – a socialization process which occurs when a person learns new roles, values or habits instead of those badly learnt before or obsolete.

Role theory – a theory positing that human behaviour is guided by expectations held by the individual and other people. The expectations correspond to different roles individuals perform or enact in their daily lives.

Secondary socialization – a socialization process which takes place later in childhood and into maturity.

Social structure (of personality) – a set of personality’s subjective and objective social qualities which are created and function in the process of his activity.

Socialization – a lifelong process by which, through contact with others, one becomes a self-aware, knowledgeable human being, skilled in the ways of a given culture and environment. Socialization suggests interiorizing of social roles and cultural norms.

Traditionalist – a person who is followed by values of duty, discipline, law; their level of self-realization, creativity is low.

Unconscious socialization – a socialization process which occurs as a result of spontaneous interaction with no purposeful or deliberate attempt on the part of anyone involved to train, educate or the like.

Additional literature

1. Blau P. Exchange and Power in Social Life. (3rd edition). – New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 1992. – 354 p.

2. Bourdeiu P. Logic of Practice. – Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990. – 382 p.

3. Coser L. The Functions of Social Conflict. – Glencoe, Ill: Free Press, 1956. – 188 p.

4. Durkheim E. The Division of Labour in Society. – New York, NY: Free Press; 1997. – 272 p.

5. Durkheim E. Suicide. – New York, NY: Free Press; 1951. – 345 p.