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n. - The adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture; The action of establishing on a collective basis.

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  • Mr Blake needs 'socialisation' as part of his fostering program.
  • He has supported what he calls "socialisation" of the mines with a greater say by workers in management and incremental expansion of the workers 'stake in the mines.
  • 'socialisation', in the current pro-capitalist South African context, the call for nationalisation is a call for increasing the elite's
  • Maybe it was socialisation as she had been taught.
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