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socialize, v.|ˈsəʊʃəlaɪz|
[f. social a. + -ize.]
1. trans. To render social; to make fit for living in society, esp. in Social Sci. Also, to transmit to an individual the cultural values and standards of behaviour of the social group of which he is regarded as a member.
1828[see socializing ppl. a.]. 1836Lytton Athens (1837) I. 382 Pisistratus refined the taste and socialized the habits of the citizens. 1846Grote Greece (1862) II. 566 Socialising and improving the people. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 254 He [the wrongdoer] is imperfectly socialised. 1932M. Gabain tr. Piaget's Moral Judgment of Child iv. 350 This assumption gains force if..social constraint does not really suffice to ‘socialize’ the child but accentuates its egocentrism. 1957O. R. McGregor Divorce in Eng. iii. 79 With horrifying overcrowding..the family could not be a stable, ongoing concern. Children were brutally socialised. 1971Mod. Law Rev. XXXIV. vi. 643 New lawyers are..informally ‘socialised’, taught the norms and behaviour patterns which are the basis of a stable legal profession. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 31 July 1/2 She is convinced..that women traditionally have failed to excel physically because they were socialized to think they could not.
2. To render socialistic in nature; to establish or develop according to the theories or principles of socialism. Also in extended uses: to administer or organize with social aims in view (rather than predominantly for profit); to finance with public funds; to bring under public control. Also absol.
1846Worcester, Socialize,..to regulate or conform to the principles of the Socialists. 1889Shaw Fabian Ess. Socialism 50 It is the municipalities who have done most to ‘socialize’ our industrial life. 1894Daily News 4 June 7/1 They would ‘socialise’, as they term it, all the instruments of production, such as mines, factories, railways, and so forth. 1920M. Beer Hist. Brit. Socialism II. iii. ix. 181 Maurice's main idea was to socialise the Christian and to Christianise the socialist. 1920Westm. Gaz. 2 Dec. 6/1 The Fehrenbach Cabinet is being increasingly pressed to Socialise, and first of all to Socialise coal. 1926J. M. Keynes End of Laissez-Faire iv. 42 One of the most interesting and unnoticed developments of recent decades has been the tendency of big enterprise to socialise itself. 1938Sun (Baltimore) 15 June 2/3 Discussions as to what the medical association and the Government might do about ‘socializing’ or financing with public funds the medical treatment of economically submerged individuals. 1948News Chron. 20 Sept. 3/3 In fact, we have to socialise men's minds—without destroying their individuality and enterprise—as well as socialising the physical assets. 1975J. De Bres tr. Mandel's Late Capitalism vii. 233 Within the company labour is directly socialized in the sense that the overall plan of the company..directly determines the output of the various factories, workshops and conveyor belts. 1976Ilkeston Advertiser 10 Dec. 20/3 It could do this by compulsory purchase, saying that it was merely ‘socialising’ the land by buying it at current use value and preventing a capitalist developer from doing the same, and then re-selling the land at a profit.
3. intr. To be sociable, participate in social activities. Freq. const. with. orig. U.S.
1895in Funk's Stand. Dict. 1900Dialect Notes II. 62 Socialize,..to talk with one of the opposite sex. 1934Amer. Speech IX. 76 Did you socialize much in Atlantic City?.. I am not going to socialize much this winter. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake (1964) iii. 498 After plenty of his fresh stout and his good balls of malt,..socializing and communicanting in the deification of his members. 1959V. Packard Status Seekers xii. 167 Trying to socialize across class barriers can be a strain. 1966J. Pearl Crucifixion of Pete McCabe ii. 21 McCabe could socialize with any of his three neighbours. 1970Daily Tel. 25 Feb. 15/3, I prefer to socialise outside the team but wouldn't go out with any man who was shattered by my job. 1978Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. 6/2 They're hard to spot because they don't like to sit around in trees and socialize with other birds.
Hence ˈsocializing vbl. n.
1904Sat. Rev. 19 Mar. 353 The preliminary necessary to the complete socialising of the state. 1944J. S. Huxley On Living in Revolution 21 This humanizing and socializing of sectional groups is one way in which the new social order will differ from the old. 1959V. Packard Status Seekers xii. 168 Status is attached to the act of socializing. 1965B. Pearce tr. Preobrazhensky's New Economics 76 The whole system of regulation of the economy cannot but be affected by the socializing of industry and transport. 1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 13/2 Having no brothers or sisters to toughen her, socializing is probably bewildering. 1976Botham & Donnelly Valentino vi. 45 Lunchtime socialising..brought him into contact with members of a motion picture company. |