Values are what you want and need to achieve the goals you set for yourself and your family. Values can be obtained in many different ways. The most important piece for building values is your family. I am responsible as a mother for teaching my children what is right or wrong before, any other influence reaches them. I can only wish that what I have already instilled in my two children is a reflection of myself as a parent.
Family values are traditions of sort. Each generation takes what they learned from their parents, shapes and molds it into what they would like to instill in their own children. Although every family is different we can consider respect, honesty, forgiveness, and responsibility as the core values. I grew up in a very structured house. What we did and how we acted was by the family values code if you will.
My Socialization Process Neslihan Temel 0219774 SOCI 1000 Assignment 1 Norquest College Irfan Chaudhry October 17, 2012 “Socialization is the lifelong process of social interaction through which individuals acquire a self-identity and the physical, mental, and social skills needed for survival in society” (Kendall, Linden & Murray, 2008, p. 56). There are four main agents of socialization, family, school, peer groups, and the mass media. Each of these agents have all played a role in gaining my self-identity. These agents have all taught me how to be a part of society. Because socialization is a lifelong process, these agents have not only provided me with the skills to become a better in person in society, but they still are providing, and will continue to provide me with these skills my whole life.
Teachers and authority figures are another group that we experience during childhood. The experiences that come with this group, teaches us the roles and structure of authority. Throughout our lives, there will always be a higher authority. This helps to develop us into law abiding citizens as we enter adulthood. (Witt, G.A., & Mossler, R. A., 2010).
On this journey towards adulthood, to find our identity we could start to value different things in our lives as opposed to what we were taught by our parents. In most cases, our family may accept us as whoever we are, because they are our closest connection, the people who grew up with us and truly care for us. Acceptance is the key to one’s sense of belonging. Most of us discover our true identity throughout our time at high school. It is one of the prime times of our lives where we discover what we truly want to do or to want to be.
When we born in to the world, family are the first place we lived. Our sense of identity and belong can be given to us from birth, it means our family member can help us to feel that we belong. The poem ‘life-cycle’ from ‘sometimes gladness’ by Burce Dawe is talking about when the babies born them parents already helps them choice which footy team will the go to. The poem describes how a baby is wrapped in the’ club-colours’. Our family can define our sense of belonging.
“Our identity is shaped by our experiences” Many things shape our identity throughout our life which is a forever evolving entity. Our identity is made up of characteristics that make us the live being we are. It is a sense of ones self which is influenced by our physical environment, family, social groups and even our upbringing. Through ones identity, a sense of belonging is gained, which is seen as a sense of enlightenment felt when an individual gains an understanding of themselves, in relation to others and the wider world. Belonging is a way of having acceptance, security and fulfilment whether it’s belonging to a group of friends, family, race and culture.
A sense of belonging and rapport is engendered within collective identities; being part of a group implies common traits that give individuals the same identity, showing them as different to other groups and identities. Identity is a way in which individuals, within the social world they live, make sense of who they are (Woodward, 2004, p2). Identity is complex and multi-faceted as individuals will have multiple identities that define them; employee, parent, friend and teacher. Having multiple identities may produce internal conflict, as the expectations and responsibilities of each identity assert themselves. Identity is fashioned from multiple factors; an individuals gender, country of origin, social class, occupation, interests, cultural background and religion all have an influence on their identity.
Ethics, on the other hand, are how we actually do behave in the face of difficult situations that test our moral fiber” (para. 1). Specific personal values and ethical standards My values started in childhood as I learned from my parents, my older sister, and brother. As I got older I gained more values from going to school, church with neighbors, and friends. I grew up in a middle-class family where my father was factory worker and my mother worked for the school district as a custodial aide.
In particular, their family and when around other people, that culture learned within them comes out. I have learned the same thing with the patients that I work with, they come from all different cultures, families, states even and because of that, we have to work with them and get along with their cultures just like they have to with ours. The same with my co-workers, they share a culture with a family or members of society and that’s what they know and how they were brought up, so other people have to learn to work with their personalities and cultures. Learning one’s culture The process of learning one’s culture is known as “enculturation” and when learning one’s culture it is learning the specifics of a particular blueprint of the culture (Dahl, Week 3). For example, when I go into work all of the male nurses greet me with a “Hello, how are you?” speech, but I never can tell if they are being serious or not.