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SOCIALISM

The social and economic doctrine that calls for
public rather than private ownership or control of
property and natural resources. According to the
socialist view, individuals do not live or work. In
isolation but live in cooperation with one another.
Furthermore, everything that people produce is in
some sense a social product, and everyone who
contributes to the production of a good is entitled
to a share in it. Society as a whole, therefore,
should own or at least control property for the
benefit of all its members.
Socialization may be defined as a process of
acquiring the sound, mental and physical skills
necessary for survival in a culture and the
perpetuating the heritage of that culture.
Socialization enables a men to become an
individual and at the same time a valuable
member of a society. In a way it tends to shape
people to be alike as they take up the ways of their
society and become a functional member of it.
Once socialized they exhibit standards of
behaviour in accordance with society’s norms,
which are the rules, laws, and customs which
govern behaviour and from which society’s value
emerge. It is the adjustments one makes to one’s
cultural environment.

SOCIALISM AND SPORTS
No human being is born with an already built-
in social self-individuality and the whole area of
social behaviour come about through a long
process of socialization where biology and culture
meet. Without socialization neither the individual
nor society could exist since both are dependent
on these unique processes. It means socialization
depends on the social and cultural heritage of
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