Tinesha Deleston
Soc100-148
4/22/13
Socialization
In the article Parents Socialization Of Children written by D.Terri Heath talks about how parents in different countries raise their children. Also, how the parenting styles are different but also similar in parenting socialization of children across cultures. This article mentions that depending on the parent academic achievement and the way parents teach their kids, will depend on the child's outcome on success. Not only success, but just the values that the child has on life and their selves period. These are the different things that parents looked at and modeled, which ended upon their kids capabilities on life.
A Call To Men video made by Tony Porter, is about the many different ways men are socialized in our society today. Socialization has and always was a big problem of our world. Tony Porter brings this situation to light in his presentation and the effects of socialization. Society says that men have to be and do things a certain way in order to live up to the rules and expectations that are placed upon men to follow. If they do not follow these rules and expectations then they do not fit into our society. I'm going to give two examples from the video that he gives to us, as examples on this so called rule of socialization.
One of the things he talked about in the video was when his daughter would cry to him. Normally when she does this he wouldn't make a big deal about it. He would just comfort her and tell her to stop crying. On the other hand when his son would do the same thing he would have a totally different approach on the situation. He would get mad and tell him to toughing up and that men don't cry. Another example he gave us is when he was talking to a 12 year old boy who's a football player, and asked him how would he feel if the coach said he was playing like a girl in front of the team. The boy said he would feel destroyed in side. These two examples show that theirs socialization towards men. It also shows how women are treated different than men through socialization.
Killing Us Softly video made by Jean Kilbourne, talks about the depiction of women in the media. Women of today and even 30 years ago are constantly being socialized through ads and commercials. The women who are in these ads and commercials don't even know their being socialized because they feel their just doing their jobs for the company they need to do their ads or commercials on. Little do they know these acts that they are engaging in is a form of socialization. Jean Kilbourne shows different ads and commercials in which ways women are experiencing socialization.
In the presentation she discussed how women are seen as objects instead of human beings because the way they portray themselves in these different pictures. It's all in their poses, their facial expressions, what their wearing, and even the captions that's placed on these different ads. Women are seen more like sex symbols than they are seen as actual women. She also show a commercial on the alcohol beverage called Miller. In this commercial you specifically see a girl who is slender build, tall, white, wearing a short sleeve belly shirt, long spaghetti strap heels, a mini skirt, and she has the bear bottle in her hand, and she was walking in a large car parking space with a whole bunch of cars around her. The girl in this commercial suppose to represent how women are suppose to look in order to fit in what we think is socialization in our world.
Both Killing Us Softly and A call To Men videos relate to chapter six because it deals with the idea in which ways that we as men and women are being socialized. Chapter six shows us different ways that we are expose and influenced to socialization. One of the examples that this chapter gives us is socialization through media. This idea relates both to the videos that I previously just mentioned. This small part in the chapter called Media, talks about how we internalize what the media projects to us and what we do with the information we possess. Media can be a reminder of how much a person or even our selves have power, the ability to have oppression towards others, and the enforcement of socialization.
The Retro Wife article written by Lisa Miller, is mainly about a feminist women named Kelly Makino, who choose to be an old traditional housewife, over being the average working women of today. Women of today's society are working, and have the best jobs that you can possibly name. Their are a lot of women who have better jobs than men, and are making more money than men are. Kelly Makino started as a working mother who graduated college with big dreams. Soon enough everything went out the window when she decided to become a housewife to her family. About almost 60 years ago being a housewife was part of socialization. This was women jobs at this time, women enjoyed and embraced this kind of work. These beliefs, values, and norms that was opposed on women of being a housewife had became quickly diminished over time. A women who was like Kelly in 1950, were fitted into the world of socialization. Women indeed was being socialized. Kelly thinks nothing of being a housewife. She actually prefer and like being a housewife. I'm quite sure theirs a lot of women who would do or did the same thing that Kelly did, and who would feel the same way she would. Although this might of been socialization in the 1950's and probably still is today, theirs a flood of different perspectives on this idea of socialization. Kelly Makino shows and states her ideas on it through being a housewife.
They say women have to look like this, in order to have the perfect body!
They say men can't be like this, in order to prove to himself and others that he's a man!
