Basic worldviews originate in childhood and resist later revision.

Evidence

We insert new information into an already existing worldview, keeping it as constant as possible. This includes our political and religious attitudes, our value systems, our explanatory models, our basic experience of how the world affects us and how we can be effective in this world. This view of the environment is partly formed in childhood, may have been shaped by the attitudes of parents, or may have been formed in conscious opposition to them. … Without realizing it, we adopt many basic attitudes from the first formative environment of our childhood and youth. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 154

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Bourdieu’s habitus and the socialization literature.