Sociology and its effects in regards to upbringing is something that sociologists have grappled with for a long time now, and through exhaustive efforts, the effects of social location (or nurture) on a person’s development is no longer called into question. With that said, this paper will be about how my social location has affected my outlook. The term “social location” can be defined in a few different ways in regards to perspective. For me personally, the big factors were my schooling and the parenting I received.
The first and undoubtedly most imprinting thing on my upbringing was my schooling. From second grade on I was sent to a christian school. I was shaped to never curse, look at things with a christian perspective, have proper etiquette, and many other things. And being in the heart of the bible belt, without even knowing it, my beliefs were also inadvertently being shaped. I was being constructed into a biblical robot who could spout you answers about the gospel as a result of my schooling.
My school also was very sheltering. I was given a false perception of many things. I was “brainwashed” of a sort …show more content…
At first I was lost in a sort seeing so much diversity and strong contrast with what I saw as social norms. It began with how people spoke, in my small town, christian environment I had never even heard a girl curse. Now, obviously it’s much different and I’ve been shaped to expect that. Another reality was interacting with such diverse beliefs and even people from other countries. I had been conditioned to give certain answers to certain questions pertaining to the bible, but new people from different areas had me stumped with new ways of looking at ideas. Overall, schooling for me at first was a sort of brainwashing followed by an assimilation process, which shellshocked my thinking, but in the end has helped me look at things more