Is there a relation between generalization and socialization?

@jnogood74 Welcome to Fluther. Not that it will matter a hoot to your Soc. teacher, but I’m with you. It’s clear to me there is a relation. Socialization relies on the human ability to form generalizations. It could not exist without it. Were they exactly parallel? Probably not. The ability to do something generally precedes achieving it.

I think there is.

Welcome to Fluther, I think I agree with @ETpro one point can not grow without the other.

Thank you guys for the welcome. I somehow stumbled on this sight. most of the time i only get to engage in intelligent conversation with my brother, and they are more debates. Also the fact that he sounds like Barry White and uses speaker phone all the time, makes it feel like i am debating with an order screen at mcd’s.

ETpro that was my main arguing point. she said i was oversimplifying things and that generalization leaned more towards stereotypes. To humor her point i asked her if stereotypes were directly linked to socialization and < with a pause or blink, she quickly replied no. I do not think i will find an intellectual conversation in this class. I think she is bound by another “ation”......structuralization.

@jnogood74 Certainly sounds like you have your “dear teach” made. You won’t find much intelligent engagement here either, but there are delightful interludes. Enough to make me stick around.

“Her stand point is that structurally they were not parallel. My stand point was that socialization, in itself, is a derivative of generalizations; minus the basic instincts.”

These two positions are not contradictory, so what was the debate about?