Socialisation process involves a continuous:
A. Movement
B. Dialogue
C. Negotiation
D. Struggle against significant others
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → B, C and D only
A. Movement Incorrect. Socialisation is a process of learning through interaction with the people around us; a bare ‘movement’ has no part in how it is described.
B. Dialogue Correct. We learn our ways from others by talking and interacting with them all the time; socialisation involves a continuous dialogue.
C. Negotiation Correct. We do not just accept what others expect of us; we bargain and adjust with them, so socialisation also involves continuous negotiation.
D. Struggle against significant others Correct. Significant others are those directly involved in our lives — parents, family, kin group and community. At times we resist what they want of us, so socialisation even involves struggle against them.
NCERT (2025-26): “6.1 The Importance of Community Identity … We are able to answer many of these questions because of the way in which we are socialised, or taught how to live in society by our immediate families and our community in various senses. (Recall the discussion of socialisation in your Class XI textbooks.) The socialisation process involves a continuous dialogue, negotiation and even struggle against significant others (those directly involved in our lives) like our parents, family, kin group and our community. Our community provides us the language (our mother tongue) and the cultural values through which we comprehend the world. It also anchors our self-identity.” |