ABSTRACT
Anselm Strauss’s essay in this volume examined the changes in adult personality in a general way. Irwin Deutscher now takes up a specific transformation — one that results from the growing-up and leave-taking of children. Significantly, and properly in interactionist tradition, he calls this a process of socialization, a term usually reserved for the process of induction of small children into society. Thus he considers this particular transformation a continuation of the lifelong process of social learning, and a number of alternative means of learning to play a new role are suggested.
