How has Sigmund Freud explained socialization?

How has Sigmund Freud explained socialization? Correct Answer Those people learn the cultural values and ideals that form a part of the personality, which he called the 'super ego'.

Socialization: socialization is the process of internalizing the norms and ideologies of society.

• Socialization is a continuous and lifelong process till to the end of life.
• An individual learns language, culture, values, norms, attitudes, and behaviors.
• Our habits are developed through socialization, which is the repeated behavior and central part of our personality.

Moreover, our personality is the outcome of socialization people and learn the cultural values and ideals that form a part of the personality, Freud's theory of socialization associates structure and development of personality with human physiological needs. 

Key PointsFreud's theory of socialization associates structure and development of personality with human physiological needs. Structure of Personality, Id, Ego, Superego. According to Sigmund Freud, the development of our personality is not completely dependent on our conscious experiences, however, most of the personality traits are developed through the unconscious. 

1. Id: The id is the impulsive (and unconscious) part of our psyche that response directly and immediately to basic urges, needs, and desires. The personality of the newborn child is all id and only later does it develop an ego and super-ego.
2. Ego: The ego develops to mediate between the unrealistic id and the external real world. It is the decision-making component of personality. Ideally, the ego works by reason, whereas the id is chaotic and unreasonable. 
3. Superego: The superego's function is to control the id's impulses, especially those which society forbids, such as sex and aggression. It also has the function of persuading the ego to turn to moralistic goals rather than simply realistic ones and to strive for perfection. The superego is partially unconscious, it operates on MORAL PRINCIPLES (cultural values and ideals).  The superego's function is to be able to differentiate between good and bad, right and wrong.

Additional Information

• George Herbert Mead, an American sociologist, and psychologist has propounded the theory of “I” and “Me”. The theory emphasizes the two sides or phases of self in which 'me' and 'I' are the socialized and active aspects of the person respectively. Mead believed that an individual's social experience was the primary determinant of individual identity, which he called “the self”. He advocated two dimensions of self which were partly guided from within and by the reactions of others.   
• Cooley’s Looking-Glass Self- Charles Horton Cooley (1964) suggested that our self-concept comes from looking at how others respond to us. This process, known as the looking-glass self involves looking at how others seem to view us and interpreting this as we make judgments about whether we are good or bad, strong or weak, beautiful or ugly, and so on. Critical response of others to developing self-concept, which he called 'self mirror.
• Human development is a result of the interaction of biological,
  cognitive, socio-emotional, and ecological processes. Genetic factors are the basic framework of the biological processes of development.

​Hence, we can conclude the right answer to this question is Those people learn the cultural values and ideals that form a part of the personality, which he called the 'super ego'.