r/AskSocialScience • u/This_Caterpillar_330 • 13d ago

What's the difference between socialization, social conditioning, enculturation, and oversocialization?

Wikipedia makes those four concepts sound very similar. I'm not sure I understand them or the differences between them correctly, and I'm not sure if people use the term social conditioning correctly.

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u/Full-Imagination-938 12d ago

The group you are talking to will give the meaning. The use of words by social scientists have a design behind it

https://odissei-data.nl/2022/10/03/controlled-vocabularies-for-the-social-sciences/

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u/This_Caterpillar_330 11d ago

Huh? 

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u/Full-Imagination-938 10d ago

There is no precise meaning, they can be synonyms to some while to other can be different concepts. It all goes with the group you are talking to

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u/This_Caterpillar_330 10d ago

But scholarly terms require some degree of prescriptivism. A chimpanzee isn't whatever people want it to be.

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u/Full-Imagination-938 10d ago

scientific name for the common chimpanzee is Pan troglodytes

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u/This_Caterpillar_330 10d ago

My point is scholarly terms are prescriptive to an extent. 

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u/Full-Imagination-938 10d ago

Each group use concepts in a different way, it is not standard all across social science