Question

What happens during socialization?
People internalize negative stereotypes and begin to feel broken.
The beliefs, values, and norms that people grow up with become entrenched.
Negative attitudes become embedded in cultural norms and institutional practices.
People attribute their successes to their own efforts but their failures to outside factors.

Answer 1

Answer: The first three are effects of socialization; the fourth is not a general outcome.

- People can internalize negative stereotypes and suffer lowered self-worth — socialization transmits both positive and negative messages about identity.
- The beliefs, values, and norms people grow up with become entrenched — socialization is how those cultural elements are learned and stabilized.
- Negative attitudes can become embedded in cultural norms and institutions — repeated socialization across generations helps reproduce discriminatory practices and institutionalized bias.

- “People attribute their successes to their own efforts but their failures to outside factors” describes the self‑serving attribution bias, which is a psychological tendency rather than a universal product of socialization. Attribution styles are shaped by socialization and culture (and vary across cultures), so this statement is not a general, defining outcome of socialization.