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Socialization is a fundamental concept in the social sciences, but the different disciplines have only to a limited degree sought to provide a coherent understanding of the processes of socialization, which has to encompass the interplay of social, psychological and genetic factors. This introduction outlines the organisation of the book, the basic dimensions of socialization, and underlines an important an important perspective in the book: the child as a subject.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialization.

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    Keats uses the concept of negative capability to refer to the sensitivity to the world and the capacity to transcend it.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_object.

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    The knowledge-based economy is an expression coined to describe trends in advanced economies towards greater dependence on knowledge, information and high skill levels, and the increasing need for ready access to all of these by the business and public sectors. http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=6864.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliberative_democracy.

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Frønes, I. (2016). What Is Socialization. In: The Autonomous Child. SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25100-4_1

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