The Relative Impact of Early and Late Socialization on Individual Modernity in India

Information collected from a sample of 1,300 adult Ms living in Ru northern India extends A. Inkeles's study of the relative impact of early & late socialization on individual modernity (see SA 19:4/71E9713). Using similar measures & analysis procedures, it was found that modernity is slightly more strongly related to late socialization than early socialization. This finding supports the pattern Inkeles observed in Argentina, Chile, Nigeria, & East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), but runs counter to the pattern he found for his Indian sample. However, on deleting items of questionable relevance to "late socialization," it was found that only occupation of R remained. Through step-wise regression analysis it was found that occupation contributes very little additional explained variance beyond what is explained by early socialization. Further, it was found that of the variables in Inkeles's early socialization scale, education serves as well to account for modernity as does the complete scale. 3 Tables. AA.