Socialisation describes the process by which people are confronted with the expectations and norms of a society and are thereby shaped.
Wokeness is oriented towards social constructivism; human behaviour is considered more or less arbitrarily malleable. Social constructivists hold the view that in human development almost everything comes down to social conditions; biology and evolutionarily shaped behaviour are considered negligible by them.397
From a woke perspective, the unjust dominant society reproduces itself through socialisation: white people are “white” socialised in the structurally racist system and thereby privileged; Black people are “Black” socialised and thereby marginalised. Men are patriarchally socialised and thereby privileged; women and especially queer persons are marginalised in the cis-normative patriarchy (see Identity).398
For woke activists, it is socialisation through which people internalise domination and oppression (see Culture). Consequently, the conditions of socialisation play an elementary role in the woke view (see New Left).
The effects of an unjust socialisation are allegedly found everywhere: all inequalities are attributed to ominous power structures, whose form one can only recognise through critical consciousness.399 To create a just system with just socialisation, the existing system is to be overcome in the name of progress.400 For this utopian goal, calls are made for solidarity, decolonisation, empowerment, and allyship.