During this phase, children only mimic the words and gestures of others (Booher-Jennings, 2008).
The second stage implies that children play the roles of particular individuals.
Understanding the ‘I’ component helps define socialization that has been widely acknowledged as the procedure, through which individuals are trained to be effective members of a community.
As such, a person reflects on how other individuals perceive them, interprets others’ reactions to their conduct, and advance self-perception, founded on those interpretations.
The formulation of the ‘self’ shows how socialization represents an active process and how the human intellect, as well as the self, are both social products (Booher-Jennings, 2008).
In other cultures and communities, mostly small customary societies, such groups are formalized as age grades and they are usually focused on males.