Journal Entry #2
Socialization plays a major key in human development as well as culture. Culture consists of conventional understandings that guide peoples’ interpretations, actions, and iterations. (Handel, Gerald, Spencer Cahill, and Frederick Elkin 57) Societies of all types each have a role in dividing the human life course into types of stages. Each stage defines a person in a unique way and one example of a stage is age grading. Whether you are a child, adolescent or even an adult, we all experience age grading at different levels. As we grow up, we develop these traits and become a woman or a man following all the stages in the process.
On another note, the history of western childhood (Handel, Gerald, Spencer Cahill, and Frederick Elkin 65) is explained in the text that caused a bit of satisfaction when social historian Philippe Aries claimed that childhood in medieval society never existed. He says that, “It provoked a great deal of interest in the previously unexplored history of childhood in Western societies.” Aries definitely did overstate his case but his more general and important point is beyond dispute. …show more content…
Children were introduced to the world of adults at a much earlier age back then and they did things that would not be appropriate to children today like the kind of jobs they had. The jobs were rigorous and dangerous for the most part. Even today, people still have that little concern that children may be experiencing adulthood too early. There is this myth that people think that by their children working hard, it insures them a future and makes them responsible human beings. But our cultural and legal systems do not allow this level of employment at a young age. It is a good thing that the government makes these restrictions today because if not, we would be living in a world like how it was