We might say that the established positions and roles in social systems provide patterns in conformity to which individuals shape their own behavior. Children playing house provide an example of little boys and girls who have observed the roles associated with mother, father, husband, and wife, and are practicing for the time when they will occupy those positions. The stereotypical female role, includes a larger degree of submissiveness, caution, tenderness, sweetness, daintiness, sensitivity, and interest in beauty. Snips and snails and puppy dog tails. Sugar and spice and everything nice.
Socialization is the process of shaping behavior of the child.
It is through socialization that an individual acquires character, attitudes, belief patterns, and most behavioral traits. It is the group which directs the behavior of the individual into approved patterns, and at the same time restricts the individual from behaving in unapproved patterns. The process of developing individual conformity to group norms of behavior is another part of the process called socialization. In other words, society is the governor which is responsible for the orderliness of human action. Children are taught norms, values, and expectations by parental instruction, in school, and by example.