The True Self
Sociology
REFLECTIVE ESSAY
Ben Montesano Who am I? Where do I fit? Drawing on both your life experiences and academic understandings of the process of socialisation, explore the major influences in the formation of your social identity. Explain why you think these influences are significant.
Who am I? Where do I fit? Drawing on both your life experiences and academic understandings of the process of socialisation, explore the major influences in the formation of your social identity. Explain why you think these influences are significant.
The questions of who am I? And where do I fi? Are the types of questions we ask ourselves each day and each day we are most likely to have a different answer for each one. As sociologists of the modern society we study and involve ourselves through social life and social institutions that help fit, piece-by-piece of the social puzzle eventually receiving the full picture of how we as a society function. As we reflect on ourselves and on society, the study of sociology helps us deliver an “analysis of the social forces that shape human behaviour in contemporary social life”. (Van Krieken 2000 p. 5) We try to understand what is the meaning to social formations which organise themselves into a way which influence the individual. What unites our social formations is the process of socialisation, which is defined as “ the process by which people learn their culture. They do so by entering and disengaging from a succession of roles and becoming aware of themselves as they interact with others”. (Furze 2012, 2nd edition, p. 78) This is commonly recognised through life experiences, which helps to crystallise their self-identity of their place in society. It is seen as a form of critical thinking, which perceives taking a fresh look at social formations and carefully analyse the social issues which lie invisible with societies social forces.
Agents of socialisations play main importance with our lives that
REFLECTIVE ESSAY
Ben Montesano Who am I? Where do I fit? Drawing on both your life experiences and academic understandings of the process of socialisation, explore the major influences in the formation of your social identity. Explain why you think these influences are significant.
Who am I? Where do I fit? Drawing on both your life experiences and academic understandings of the process of socialisation, explore the major influences in the formation of your social identity. Explain why you think these influences are significant.
The questions of who am I? And where do I fi? Are the types of questions we ask ourselves each day and each day we are most likely to have a different answer for each one. As sociologists of the modern society we study and involve ourselves through social life and social institutions that help fit, piece-by-piece of the social puzzle eventually receiving the full picture of how we as a society function. As we reflect on ourselves and on society, the study of sociology helps us deliver an “analysis of the social forces that shape human behaviour in contemporary social life”. (Van Krieken 2000 p. 5) We try to understand what is the meaning to social formations which organise themselves into a way which influence the individual. What unites our social formations is the process of socialisation, which is defined as “ the process by which people learn their culture. They do so by entering and disengaging from a succession of roles and becoming aware of themselves as they interact with others”. (Furze 2012, 2nd edition, p. 78) This is commonly recognised through life experiences, which helps to crystallise their self-identity of their place in society. It is seen as a form of critical thinking, which perceives taking a fresh look at social formations and carefully analyse the social issues which lie invisible with societies social forces.
Agents of socialisations play main importance with our lives that