Personal Narrative: The Role Of Socialization In My Family

Socialization starts from the very beginning of one’s life, and one’s experiences and environments affect how a person is socialized. Various agents of socialization such as family, school, mass media, religion, and friends played vital roles in shaping who I am now. Like many people, I was raised by my parents and grew up with two younger brothers. My family had embedded many values into my mind, but I would only be reflecting on the most notable ones I could remember. First, as a child, I remember being called “OA” (overacting) often by my father, which drove me to be somewhat withdrawn and become more conscious of and careful about how I react to different situations. To be fair, I was truly overacting, from what I could remember, so I believe my father did not intend to make me a thinking machine when he did that. Nevertheless, I had most usually thought carefully about how I reacted since then, losing my spontaneity. There were times when I would wonder why I could not feel any genuine emotion when I hear that someone is terribly sick, when someone cries to me, or when

I would agree with Dewey when he stated that “’growth itself is the moral end’ and that to ‘protect, sustain and direct growth is the chief ideal of education’” because, as we grow, we are unaware of what we will be when we finish, if there is such a thing as one who has finished self-creating (cited by Rorty, 1999). Indeed, we should not set rigid boundaries which would only keep us from challenging and even undoing the effects of socialization. Thus, given that the concept of growth possessed immense flexibility, I believe the society or an individual could be said to be growing if it changed consciously, with considerable knowledge about the influences of one’s agents of socialization. Simply put, the deliberateness of one’s development, in my opinion, is the most crucial point of