Socialization is the process through which social experience confers human qualities on an individual. I believe that for society as a whole, socialization is the means by which one generation transmits culture to the next. A century ago, people thought most human behavior was guided by biological...

Chapter nine brings out a very important and scary part of society, deindividuation. In this chapter individuation is defined as "the loosening of normal constraints on behavior when people are in a crowd, leading to an increase in impulsive and deviant acts." Acts of violence seem to be t...