Sociology Chapter 6 Analysis

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Introduction to Sociology Section:112 Reflections: Chapter 6 I have chosen to write my Reflections paper on Chapter 6. I am strongly interested in learning about the developmental skills of others and what scientists have come up with over the years. In the beginning of the chapter pages 63-75 you will learn about what affects us as children and leads us to becoming adults. The chapter first talks about a man that had a daughter who had lost her hearing at the age of two and was pregnant, due to her father having negative thoughts about her future, he placed his daughter and granddaughter in his attic to live. Isabelle, the granddaughter could not speak or walk well when she and her mother were found. Isabelle had learned to communicate…show more content…
Resocializaton is taking things outside of your norm, for example: a women becoming a nun, a man getting a divorce. It is taking that women away from the daily life she is used too and taking the man away from the person he has always been with. Sociologist, Erving Goffman came up with the powerful agent of socialization-total institution. This term means boot camp, prison concentration camps, convents and some religious schools. Total institutions are completely isolated from the public, living behind bars. The stages, from birth to death are known as life course. You no longer look at your life how you looked at it when you were 21 and in college, how you would look at it now with a husband and family. You’re thought process in life changes. The life course states that childhood ( from birth to about age 12), Adolescence (ages 13-17), transitional adulthood (ages 18-29), middle years (ages 30-65), the older years ( about 65 and on).In your early childhood memories that happen to you as a child begin to formulate who you will become. In adolescence years you begin to find your identity. In transitional adulthood you are learning how to become and adult and learn responsibly. In your early middle years (30-49) you begin to reassure yourself of your life goals. It’s normally a common period or divorce or losing a job. In your later middle years (50-65) you begin to gather your health issues…show more content…
girls. Girls wear pink and boys wear blue. I think a color does symbolize boy from girl but shouldn’t. I feel like we have come so far in our country that everything should be equal even through colors. I think boys should be able to wear pink without being called gay. It is not making a statement when a guy wears pink, maybe he just likes the color. I worked for a dentist who liked the color pink but was married for 18 years with two kids but still picked the pink lunch box when he works with all girls and there were blue lunch boxes available. Once you hit a curtain age in junior high everything becomes about what you look like, who you hang out with etc. I don’t think its right that we base everything off appearance, but Melissa Milkie was right. The advertising and TV shows do not let us think for us. We want to be doing what everyone else is doing. I do agree that where you grown up will affect your entire life and the kids you play with as a child. When you’re a child you know nothing so it’s almost neat for children to learn off one
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