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The theoretical attempts to explore and explain the complex process of socialization in contemporary societies are poor with knowledge if they leave out the analysis of the role of social and cultural capital in that process. Starting from the dominant understanding of socialization as a process of adopting social values and norms (which is a "prerequisite" of inclusion of an individual into a society), we can recognize the need for explanation of the intensity of influence of cultural patterns, as well as more or less developed structural social networks in the frame of which a personality is being socialized, to accepting and adopting of certain values and norms that form his behavior and acting. Social and cultural capital is understood here as the determining basis that especially exert its influence to the effects of socialization of man in modern societies in three fields: (a) function of knowledge and emotional behavior, (b) function of will and motivation and (c) attitudes, which are seen as relatively constant readiness to act in a socially desirable direction. In this sense, in this paper the importance of social and cultural capital for formation of homo sociologicus in modern societies will be especially explained, together with a critical review of the actual sociological research and theoretical explanations. |
