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Government as Agent

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State

Government is an agent of socialization that defines the ages, obligations, and legal categories a person is assigned across life.

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A state fixes when a person may drive, vote, marry, or be tried as an adult.

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Government socialization reaches people who neither joined nor consented to the categories it assigns.