社教化（英语：Socialization）是一个广泛应用于社会学、社会心理学、人类学、政治学与教育学范畴的名词，意指人类学习、继承各种社会规范、传统、意识形态等周遭的社会文化元素，并逐渐适应于其中的过程。对个人来说，社教化是学习同时扮演社会上不同的角色的过程。个人社教化会受到地区文化的影响，因个人的成长背景，社教化的过程、内容也会随之改变。

促进社教化的社会组织包括:学校、家庭、青少年中心、教堂等社交场合。协助社教化的媒体包括:杂志、电影、电视等。因为它们传播着一些大路的文化价值。

Socialization, also spelled socialisation, is a term used by sociologists, social psychologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and educationalists to refer to the lifelong process of inheriting and disseminating norms, customs, values and ideologies, providing an individual with the skills and habits necessary for participating within their own society. Socialization is thus "the means by which social and cultural continuity are attained".