Thursday, October 22, 2009

Sociolization

One way that I am like my family is that I play instruments. Almost everyone in my family plays an instrument: my two brothers, my mom and I. Another way that I am like my family is that we are like playing board games. A way that I am like my long term friends is that we are all Jewish. Most of us now are religious. My friends and I are all in NCSY which is a Jewish youth group. We all enjoy just hanging out and talking. Most of us like going away for shabbat. I don't think its possible to work against both nature and nuture. Everyone is unique and gets their nature and nuture from multiple different places to make up who you are. But nature and nuture make a person so you have to have some of it in your past to be who you are today. It is possible to work against different parts of you nature that you are in and also to work against different parts of your nuture that you are in. From the article one group that has influenced me is the neighboorhood. I live on a coldasac so when I was in elementrary school my parents would allow me to play outside without watching us because they didn't have to worry about cars running over us. Also on my street I know most of the other kids that live there and am friendly with them. I live in a safe neighboorhood. My family usually isn't so worried with someone breaking in. There are many different things throughout that make up your socialization.

Friday, October 2, 2009

Infantilization

Usually adults are treated like adults and kids are treated like kids. Infantilization is meaning that adults get treated like kids, which happens sometimes in our society. Workers at stores come up to us constanltly saying something like do you need helpe? Usually as kids are growing up parents or teachers offer help to them all the time. As you grow up though you usally learn that you can ask for help if you need it. So when you are shopping at a sotre you would ask someone for help if you needed it they don't need to be coming up to you constantly to see if you need help. Another example of people being infantilized is in high school teachers still make kids ask if they can go to the bathroom. I think kids by taht time would be responsible enough to decide if they can go to the bathroom or not. Infantilization is both consitent and inconstitent. In some places like in stores infantilization is consintent. But at work peole aren't usually treated as kids they are treated like adults. With US macro cultural values it depends on the situation for wheater there is infantilization or not. Most places you go shopping people are constantly coming up to and asking if you need help. There is a presence of infantilization in some situations and an absence of it in some other situations.