Abstract

The issue of internalization as a mechanism of the formation of social knowledge has been studied extensively in psychology and sociology. While the former has overlooked an individuals knowledge as socio-historical products, the latter has underestimated social institutions as the product of human creativity [intelligence]. This paper intended to investigate how individuals knowledge and social institutions can be integrated by internalization process which transforms the attitude of inter-individual level into the value of intra-individual appears when one is constrained in a specific institutional setting. But the value of intra-individual is aquired when one is dccontcxtualized from the insututional setting. Thus, social instututions and individuals knowledge can be dialetically intergrated by attitude-value conversion.