How many times spend people in ‘socialization’? How this ‘socialization’ has changed in the last decades? What’s socialization?

In spanish we have two words that leans to misunderstandings: ‘solializar’ and ‘sociabilizar’. The meaning for the former (the translation) is ‘to collectivize’, and the meaning for de second is ‘to socialize’ (although Google translates the two word in the same way: to socialize).

But for the target of this article, the distinction into ‘to collectivize’ and ‘to socialize’ is really useful.

Although the evolution of the collectivization process is very interesting, we are not concerned about this matter (even if is the subject who is collectivized). The changes we are looking at are those inside the human relationships.

The importance of socialization

Maybe, if we use ‘sociabilization’, even if it doesn’t exists in English, it will be more clear.

Sociabilization is the humankind’s capacity of communicate and collaborate each other. Is this our mainly strength, and the reason we are now the rulers of the planet.

The changes of sociabilization are the changes of communication, and since the development of civilization, this changes has become transcendents and lately, increasing frequently.

Our infinite capabilities

Obviously, we have not infinite capabilities or resources, and we have to manage them, prioritizing where and when we spend them.

The improvements in communications consequently affects the sociabilization rituals, and made them more efficient.

Language, writing, messages… added to sociability in order of organize people to do bigger things in collaboration.

Rules, policies and collectivization (the other socialization) helped to simplified the collaboration and sociabilization. And, as far as the human race is concerned, when sommething becomes more simple, that means we have more room to complicate things.

That’s the way sociabilization has changed along the history of humankind and it’s the way it is changing right now. The goal of sociability is the collective work.

When relationship becomes simple, structured and organized, predictible and under control, you don’t need to spend a lot of time in it, and can manage your resources in others ways. And this is what we see now, in a every day more individualized and loneliness society.