Socialization: What is it and why you need it in your conceptual toolbox

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Socialization may appear today as a relic of the past, mentioned only for history sake in introductory textbooks but largely obsolete. But it is certainly a concept worth rediscovering, since it may well be exactly what sociology needs today to advance: a better notion than identity or self to understand social inequalities “under the skin” and to explain both the reproduction and the transformation of societies as they happen through individuals; a more precise, concrete and empirically grounded way to tackle the habitus and to examine the sociogenesis of dispositions that constitute it; a conceptual tool through which it is possible to understand how and why we act as we act, think as we think, and become what we are.

The talk will be illustrated with various examples drawn from Muriel Darmon’s research on anorexia, commercial weight-loss groups, elite education in France and health inequalities.

Note: If you attend online, please contact Professor Anna Strhan at anna.strhan@york.ac.uk to add you to the calendar invite where you can find the Join Zoom link.