Boys Will Be Boys

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Amber J. Osegueda Professor Schuchman Sociology Culture and Society You Decide Activity 1/27/2014 In today’s generation, being social is part of an everyday routine. We have Social Medias that can be connected through a smart phone, tablet and laptop. These social Medias can be reached throughout the world and it makes it very easy for people to get information globally. In the activity “Boys will be Boys “5 colleagues discuss how they feel about fellow coworkers, who speak explicitly amongst themselves. One way we may first approach the issue would be to understand “Gender Socialization” this would refer to learning behavior and attitudes which can be considered appropriate. In this situation the employees are men and in their first year of college. It would be safe to guess that since they have just graduated high school, this sort of conversation is part of the social normative and they have not yet adapted to a work place environment. According to Lawrence Kohlberg’s “Theory of Moral Development”, he has expressed three levels of moral development. The second level which is known as the “conventional level” is associated with teen age group. Lawrence Kohlberg states that “young people lose some of their selfishness as they learn to define right and wrong in terms of what pleases parents and conforms to cultural norms. In our activity, the young coworkers maybe in this stage of their moral development and may be socially aware of how their conversation may affect the people around them, but are still learning to conform to them in an act of social rebellion. Sigmund Freud had also developed 3 human personality models that can be applied to this activity. One of the three examples is called “superego”, this is attributed to cultural values and norms internalized by an individual. Even though a fellow coworker has only been able to hear bits and pieces
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