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Society shapes us as individuals and as members of society

Socialization is a practice of interaction through which individuals obtain personality and

the way of life of their societies. Personality refer to traits of a person as there are arranged

externally into obligations and as they associate internally with motivation, objectives and

various facets of selfhood. W.I. Thomas highlights the relationship between personality and

socialization in the society.

W.I. Thomas made significant contributions in the field of sociology. For instance, Polish

Peasant in Europe and America and situational analysis. The two sociological works of Thomas

emphasize the association between personality and large social systems. His concern within the

interior driving factors of the individuality as an element for behavior remained consistent across

his sociological perspectives. Desire for new experience, recognition, response and security

address the four wishes which represent Thomas’s attempt to explain driving factors into action.

The statements of Thomas can be interpreted for the audience to understand the

relationship between individuality and socialization. Each man is like all other men because

some of the determinants of his identity are universal to the species (Lubsky et al. 3). There are

common characteristics in the biological aspects of all mean, in the physical setting they reside,

and in the societies and cultures where they nurture. Additionally, in particular aspects of

personality, each man is like some other men. The similarities is witnessed to other members of

the similar socio-cultural unit.

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The final statement by William Thomas is that each man is like no other man. According

to Leavitt (16), every personal’s modes of feeling, behaving or requiring have characteristic

patterns which are not exactly replicated by those of any other person. It is noticeable to the

unexceptional integration of biological materials where the individual has received from his

guardians. The eventual uniqueness of every personality is the product of various successive

interactions between the established law and different environing circumstances from birth

onwards (Leavitt 16).

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Work Cited
Leavitt, Lynda, Sherrie Wisdom, and Kelly Leavitt, eds. Cultural Awareness and Competency

Development in Higher Education. IGI Global, 2017.

Lubsky, Anatoliy Vladimirovich, Elena Yuryevna Kolesnikova, and Roman Anatolyevich

Lubsky. "Normative Type of Personality and Mental Matrix of Social Behavior in

Russian Society." Indian Journal of Science and Technology 9.36 (2016).