How Does Social Acting Affect Children

A child’s development is influenced culturally by the social institutions, customs and laws that make up a society. Society is a group of people, large or small, living together by adopting customs and organization for mutual benefit and interactive coexistence (New Zealand Tertiary College [NZTC], 2014). When we hear the term ‘social’, we immediately connect it to other people. M. Webber defined ‘social acting’ as the sense of the action is related to others’ behavior (Weber, 1922 cited in Aschenbrenner & Hellwig, 2009), example: a child handing over a colourful eraser found on the floor to his teacher, knowing it is not his and someone might be looking for it. If the child wasn’t expecting anyone to look for it, then it wouldn’t be a social behaviour. Social acting takes place in
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