ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to build up a theoretical framework which may be used to examine socialization in some detail. The process of socialization has been considered in two ways. Firstly, the passage of the child through the social structure was described and attention given to the various dimensions of behaviour which a member of a given society must learn as he becomes an adult. Secondly, the idea of a sociology of learning was introduced and attention was switched to the interpersonal level. The teaching of social studies at school is often a very relevant part of the child's preparation for the economic and political roles that he will play in the future. In advanced urban societies, there are clusters of closely interrelated roles that centre on economic and on political institutions, but members of these societies do not play these roles constantly. Such roles may be considered as secondary roles, and much secondary socialization takes place in childhood.
