Socialization of a child in the traditional culture of the Sayanо-Altai Turks

Abstract

The article considers the rites associated with children. Through these rites there raises the issue of
acquiring the ethnic originality of their own language, their perception, their attitude to nature, beauty
and work, social experience while mastering the norms of behavior by children. Thanks to folklore material
such as well-wishes, fairy tales, proverbs, heroic tales, which incorporated ideals, images, values of
the people, archaic plots are traced. Indeed, it was through oral creativity that cultural, historical information
was transmitted between generations. Modern ethnographic material allows to reveal the sustainability
of cults: the cult of fire, the cult of ancestors, the cult of nature. The study reflects the special role
that the Sayano-Altai Turks assign to the child and childhood in traditional culture. It is in the context of
the child’s socialization that knowledge and methods are revealed that form the norms of behavior of
society, family and parents.