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The article presents information on habitat as a universe of child socialization in industrial societies. In so far as the habitat can be considered a social product and the result of a process of cultural development, people shall attempt to assess the part it plays in the socialization of the child. While there is ample evidence of the importance of the physical environment in the shaping of the child's personality, there are no studies on the relation of the child to built-up space as a universe of socialization. The habitat in industrial societies today involves only a small number of the social and cultural variables which might have to come into play in connection with the human habitations of traditional societies. Among the different socialization factors which characterize the inconsistency of the system of values and perceptions of industrial societies, the habitat seems, on the face of it, on the verge of losing all meaning, as the result of a gradual impoverishment of the cultural dimensions of architecture and town planning. |
