Abstract
This article debates current socialization processes. Following previous discussions, it makes relevant statements from a methodological perspective to the ones interested in researching socialization processes. The text brings a discussion on the importance of contextualizing individual paths in order to concretely appropriate experiences and positions of the individual along social pathways. Cadres (institutions), modalities(courses of action), time (moment of the individual’s path), and effects (dispositions to act, feel and think) are categories to be considered along all the process to avoid empty and rhetoric interpretations about the incorporation of ways of being. As a theoretical and methodological discussion, the article lists other studies with the same proposed procedure. All the investigations cited seem to follow the methodology of contextualizing the present and the past of the subjects to warn against possible deviations or mistakes often made by researchers. Indeed, a significant number of studies, in the face of new socializations, fail to take into account the effects of previous socializations, and thus credit the room for updating previously acquired dispositions to secondary socialization.
Institutions; Individual; Contemporaneity; Cultural dispositions