Socialization, reciprical causality

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FROM JIM DEVINE:
>I already presented an alternative to this so-called socialization
>theory, in which people make the culture AND the culture makes the
>people. It's wrong to focus on one at the expense of the other or
>to make points for one theory at the expense of the other.
>We should avoid simplistic either/or thinking in which people
>EITHER are socialized OR create society in their own image
>(responding to the genetically-based natures?)  It's like
>talking about supply without demand.

I agree with this too: Art reflects culture and real life, real
life emulates art and culture. I'm surprised one-way causal thinking
has lasted so long.

--Stephen Guastello