Socialisation

* answers.com: The process whereby a child learns to get along with and to behave similarly to other people in the group, largely through imitation as well as group pressure. Plus many more references and links.
* reference.com: 8 references to socialisation
* Wikipedia: The term socialization is used by sociologists, social psychologists and educationalists to refer to the process of learning one’s culture and how to live within it. For the individual it provides the resources necessary for acting and participating within their society. For the society, inducting all individual members into its moral norms, attitudes, values, motives, social roles, language and symbols is the ‘means by which social and cultural continuity are attained’ (Clausen 1968)...
Some links from wikipedia:
1 Socialization
2 Forms of socialization
3 Agents of Socialization
3.1 Media and socialization
3.2 Total institutions
3.3 Gender socialization and gender roles

* The concern has been raised by certain agencies that our children may not be receiving sufficient opportunity to socialise with their peers and persons outside our communities. This concern is expressed because of our communal lifestyle, our deeply held religious convictions (which we pass on to our children), and because many of us have chosen to home school our children. (Source: A biblical view from The Family)

http://www.sociology.org.uk/p2c5n2.htm
* The sociological theory is that of culture and socialisation. In basic terms, the idea is that we are born into a society that has certain rules of .behaviour