Social Self Reflection

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As human beings, we inhabit certain roles in our lives which are always changing as we grow into ourselves. An aspect of this process is through socialization in which we internalize different perspectives about life as far as beliefs, values and norms are concerned. Such constructs are established in our social spheres as well as part of our society as a whole. Through socialization we are able to fall into a certain status in the social world that ultimately has particular roles and responsibilities associated with that status. For me I feel that my role has changed as I have grown, currently I have fallen into a status of a student and daughter but also a caregiver. As such I have conformed to certain societal expectations while also denying …show more content…

With my social sphere growing, I have adapted into a new status of a college student. While this holds certain stereotypes, I feel that not all apply to me. Moreover, my status set was and is manipulated to fit the needs in my life, for example even though I am a college student I have other responsibilities outside of going to school. At home I adapted to the role of a caregiver through though the use of my achieved status as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) to help my family deal with my stepfather’s cancer symptoms. In this there was a role strain because even though I was a daughter at home I was also a caregiver for my family. Overall, my status set expanded beyond its normal realms to fit my newer social situations and as such it presented a role conflict. The societal constructs at times inhibit the child taking care of a parent, this posed as a struggle in my life because I have this achieved status of a CNA which was useful to my social network. Within this I conformed to the needs around me, there was pressure to use my achieved status in a way that conflicted with my primary status as a daughter. In our society, when we look at the child- parent relationship we see how that can greatly influence the growth of the child in the sense that parents

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