Hello, this is a paper I turned in earlier this week. I hope you appreciate it.
This assignment is in response to "Essentials of sociology: a down to earth approach: by James Henslin, the porting of it is called "Socialization into Gender".
Week 3 Discussion 2 Important Idea of “Socialization into Gender”
Important
Idea of “Socialization into Gender”
Let me
start by saying I don't like the title “Socialization into Gender”,
I don't like the main idea of gender messages by stereotyping gender
roles. You can do anything you want if you put your mind to it.
This is from an on-line definition:
Definition
of SOCIALIZATION:
: the process by which a human being beginning at
infancy acquires the habits, beliefs, and accumulated knowledge of
society through education and training for adult status
Another on-line definition:
Definition
of SOCIALIZE
transitive verb
1:
to make
social;
especially : to fit or train for a social
environment
2
a
: to constitute on a
socialistic
basis <
socialize industry>
b :
to adapt to social needs or uses
3:
to organize group participation in <socialize a
recitation>
intransitive
verb: to participate actively in a social group
The first definition is a
medical definition from Merriam Webster medical section, that a
problem for me. The second definition is a dictionary definition,
and it is okay, but with understanding that socialization is a
trained skill as defined. So who trains?
The first paragraph in the
article “Socialization into Gender” by James M. Henslin is a
problem to me that it states “To channel our behavior,
society also uses gender socialization. By expecting different
attitudes and behaviors from us because we are male or female, the
human group nudges boys and girls in separate directions in life.”
Let me put it in a nut shell
in my own words. A boy is trained by his farther and mother growing
to play cowboy and indians, with his tonka truck, and get dirty. A
girl is trained by her farther and mother to play barbie dolls and
with her doll house and have tea parties, and stay clean.
The second paragraph bring
the question up of how we learn gender messages and the influence in
a persons life of gender messages. It introduces the family and mass
media were the rest of the article talks about gender massages
influences.
This article reminds me of
Amy Chua in how they put bad media influence on her in raising her
children. To me, Amy Chua, in shielding her children is not cause of
week children rather giving them time to explore their human
qualities that world will soon take away from them at school, work,
and general contact in the world. The world will gnaw at us all soon
enough, so why rush it! It is the parents job to build the
communication and socialization skills of our child, not the worlds.
The balance of socialization is yielded by the lack of these unbuilt
skills replaced by rebellious contact in the world. That we
released our children to early in to the world, with out proper
eduction and monitoring of their activities while they growing up.
We only heard about bombs in other countries, then government
buildings, then colleges, and now high schools are not safe because
we don't properly educate our children on the skills of communication
and socialization, keep in mind these skill do dialog on behavior
that is to say internal and external stimuli, our feelings, our
thought process, our reaction to, in the circumstances.
The way the industry of
medical society want you and I to believe or understand something is
their problem. You raise your children with knowledge and
understanding from information you know the best you can. Yes we
have influences on our children because they love us, and we managed
to keep then alive loving and freely because we love them too. With
effort and striving we can become better than the sum of the ones who
raised us. The excuses of setback is not a sign to stop, rather an
opportunity to learn something. "Every wrong attempt discarded
is another step forward." from Thomas Edison; "Anyone who
has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." from
Albert Einstein. The same holds true to us raising our children and
the socialization influences on them and us.
In closing I can choose to
react negatively or positively to a problem. I have the power of
choice, I can choose to work in an industry as a school teach, a
nurse traditionally dominated by females. A car mechanic, a
corporate boss traditionally dominated by males. It is my choose,
not the worlds to influence me because I am a man or woman. You too
have the power of choose to be and not influenced by the world
because you are born a boy or girl, you can also break the lines you
may not like, that you were raised with, keep what you like and
believe in, love yourself for you, not in what the world loves you
for. Believe in yourself.
