{"id":5903,"date":"2009-01-15T02:15:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T07:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=5903"},"modified":"2013-07-06T14:32:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T19:32:26","slug":"on-children-and-socialization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/01\/15\/on-children-and-socialization\/","title":{"rendered":"On Children and Socialization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is a video, found via The Daily Dish<\/a>, of a girl, maybe four or five, mimicking the dancing in\u00a0a music video featuring Beyonce.\u00a0 She’s amazing!\u00a0 Watch her go:<\/p>\n

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Wow!<\/p>\n

Okay… now for sociological comments… these are all Gwen’s ideas, by the way, even though I’m posting it:<\/p>\n

We often think of childhood socialization as a top-down process.\u00a0 That is, we imagine that children are empty vessels and adults, mostly parents maybe, fill them up with whatever they please.\u00a0 It may be true that the parents of this little girl actively, even aggressively, encouraged her to learn this dance.\u00a0 But it’s also possible that this is driven by that little girl.\u00a0 In which case, it may illustrate how kids can take an\u00a0active part in their own socialization.\u00a0 Clearly these parents don’t mind that their daughter is watching Beyonce, but she may be taking the initiative to emulate a public figure she’s seeing in the media (which surely includes messages about how to look, dress, etc.).\u00a0 Even if these parents don’t like everything about that message (or other models she might follow), they can’t actually protect her from the ever-present messages about femininity that are all around her, which are going to affect how she thinks about herself, what she should be, etc.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Below is a video, found via The Daily Dish, of a girl, maybe four or five, mimicking the dancing in\u00a0a music video featuring Beyonce.\u00a0 She’s amazing!\u00a0 Watch her go: Wow! Okay… now for sociological comments… these are all Gwen’s ideas, by the way, even though I’m posting it: We often think of childhood socialization as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,16039,55,2099,675],"class_list":["post-5903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-dance","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5903"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56130,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions\/56130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}