Abstract: This article is dedicated to the questions of reflection over the historical aspects of the study of socialization. The discussion is focused on the search of such event from the history of research though, which can signify the conception of the group of knowledge on the corresponding phenomenon. Due to the fact that the present literature substitutely names several facts that can claim to the status of the initial, the author attempts to conclude the alternative metatheoretical hypotheses under the unified logic, within the framework of which the mentioned in each case events represent rather stages, than the origins of the study of socialization. Thanks to the general scientific methods of comparison and classification, the observed metatheoretical theses can be integrated into the six mutually complementing groups. The following conclusions are made during the course of this work: firstly, the author claims the need for a particular consideration of the conceptual load of criticism, which result in the reflection over the knowledge on socialization; secondly, it is suggested to problematize the use of the metaphor of emergence in realization of this reflection, as well as attracts other metaphors in the context of reference to the regularities of evolution of the authentic data on socialization, which would not directly refer to the idea of the beginning.