Sociological research. - 2003. - No1. The problem of socialization of the individual is one of the main in sociology, which studies the mechanisms of transfer of social experience from generation to generation established and operating in society, the ratio of processes and institutions of socialization. The specificity of sociological analysis of socialization consists in the identification of socially typical in diverse processes of integration of individuals into society. The peculiarity of the sociological study of the socialization of the individual is associated with the duality of the object of the study "personality - society".