The Door in Our Mind
At the beginning of every human life we are born with an open mind later to be molded. Once the molding reaches a certain stage the door closes and our journey to become who we are begins. As a young child is introduced to new enviorments, people and surrondings they are created into who they will become, a process called socialization. Socialization is a process of learning ones culture, it must be done at an early age to have the proper affects on the child. This process is done naturally when the door in the child’s mind is wide open. However, there are cases when socialization is done in an unnataural way or not at all. Two primary example of these cases of unsocialized children are cases of finding an isolated child and finding a child living a feral lifestyle. Feral, is when a child is raised by wild animals. It is not commonly seen in today’s society, but when it is there is a struggle to re-socialize the child back into society. Isolated, means to be shut out from society. It is another cases where re-socailizing the child back into society is a struggle. In both cases, the child’s mind, in a sense, has been corrupted and the possibility of the child being socialized becomes scarce. But what are the reasons behind this? Theories and cases have shown that without proper socialization the door within a child’s mind can close and their hope for socialization is lost.
Theories
Socialization is made up of many theories that have been developed and changed over time and by many people. The theories, although have there differences, cover the same basics. Each theory covers the idea that habbits learned at an early age are determental and if socialization does not occur at an early age the child...
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Davis, K. (1940). The American Journal of Sociology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
This piececovered the topic of a child that has been through isolation, it also covered a story from the 1930s to 1940s, following a child who had been through isolation and showed her progression. From reading the piece one can see that even though it is tough to resocialize an isolated child it is not possible. This piece showed that there is a long and slow process to rescializing any child.
Barkan, S. (2012). Sociology: Comprehensive Edition.
This is a textbook found online that went through many of the different parts of sociology, including the topic of socialization. It also talks about culture and how it is closely linked to socialization and how people socialize.
Brym, Robert. (2014).[Socialization] In, Whittington-Walsh, F. (Ed), Introduction to Sociology: SOCIO 1125: Introduction to Society (91,93,119). Toronto: Nelson Education.
It was found that all communities taught socialization appropriate to their environments. Kusserow categorized her findings as: hard of...
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General socialization begins in childhood with our parents and grandparents or caretakers. Simple verbal and nonverbal interactions taking place between those closest to us and our world around us creates ideas and beliefs and coach us in how we should react to our environment. General socialization can be seen when children are punished for being inappropriate or impolite, or when their behaviors are reinforced by authority figures around them. Growing up in a conservative home, one may ...
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...onsequence of her having zero interaction with other humans, this child was not aware of any social qualities. From the example of feral children, we can reasonably infer that socialization and nurture are key ingredients in a child’s development.
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Brym, Robert. (2014).[Socialization] In, Whittington-Walsh, F. (Ed), Introduction to Sociology: SOCIO 1125: Introduction to Society (91,93,119). Toronto: Nelson Education.
The Sociological use (E1). “Socialization is defined as the process of assisting young people to become members of society by giving them social skills close to virtues. In other words, one can rightly define socialization as ‘grooming a child into being a member of society”. All this ideally ought to happen by persuasion and not by coercion; this tends to suggest that
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