Starting at the age of 5 years old, kids all over the world begin their academic career as kindergarteners. None of them realize the very long journey ahead of them. We all start out in kindergarten, where we are taught the alphabet, how to read, and how to write uppercase and lowercase letters. We then move into elementary school, which is 1st through 8th grade. “Early in elementary school we were taught to raise a hand to speak in class.” (You May Ask Yourself, pg. 119). Elementary Education teaches their students socialization skills, tests their limits in social situations, and sees how the theories of socialization work.
The definition of socialization, according to Craig Calhoun in the Dictionary of the Social Sciences, is “the process through which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a society and learn to function as its members.” During the years as an elementary student, you are taught basic socialization skills that you use for the rest of your life in all kinds of social situations. How you apply and use these skills in all the situation you encounter shape who you become. That is why it is when children start their academic journey, the school systems become one of the top places for their socialization. Kids are taught to speak after raising their hand, to not speak when the teacher is speaking, and to face forward focusing all their attention on the teacher. They then discover the repercussions of breaking those specific rules, which then lead to them testing their limits in socialization.
In the book it uses two case studies on two separate cases of twins too introduce the limits of socialization to us. The reasoning behind the cases studies is that twins are support systems to one another. The one study they used is how twins are separated at birth and move hundreds of miles away yet are still each other’s support system. The book then gets into how society often refers to the children that push the limits too far, “the problem child”. Society does this because they cannot understand what happen to this child, especially when this child has a picture-perfect family. It is society’s automatic thinking process to not think too deep into the right and wrongs in the social world, rather just go with what is most helpful to them and that current situation.
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“Now that we have identified this process called socialization, we can turn to some of the theories about how it works.” (You May Ask Yourself, pg. 121). The theory’s focus is on Me, Myself, and I, which is when a young child does not understand the concept of being and individual self. It is argued by scientists that developing the understanding of self-concept emerges through a social process. This means the young child is not able to put herself in the other individuals mind set and see their point of view. For the I and Me part of the theory, only infants know the I, and they then learn the Me through social interaction. The final thing of the theory that children do not understand, which is why adults are so easy and patient with them, is the sense of the other. Once the child has reached a certain age of maturity, they recognize the sense of the other and then would refer to that person being selfish and or childish. Then as they reach adulthood, society expects them to be able to acknowledge what other’s want, desire, and need.
They receive just this tiny bit of instructions in elementary school, and it is implanted in them for all the social situations they are to encounter. None of them realize the very long journey ahead of them. We all start out in kindergarten, where we are taught the alphabet, how to read, and how to write uppercase and lowercase letters. We then move into elementary school, which is 1st through 8th grade. “Early in elementary school we were taught to raise a hand to speak in class.” (You May Ask Yourself, pg. 119). Elementary Education teaches their students socialization skills, tests their limits in social situations, and sees how the theories of socialization work.
