Cultural Views Of Aging Analysis
This week’s text about culture and socialization was striking. Whenever I venture out of my comfort zone for writing, I will communicate my approach to guide the organization and harmony of my content. After reading the material and composing my response, I plan to: (a) share my personal analysis of how the United States handles aging; (b) recall the myths I heard while parenting my firstborn son; and (c) explain my belief that one’s achievements within a culture can delineate success across societies.
Cultural Views of Aging
The writing mentions the process of socialization and the varying views of aging across cultures. Socialization characterizes how “an individual becomes a member of a particular culture and takes on its values, beliefs, …show more content…
Aging is a time to categorize stages in undesirable terms, like a child entering the “terrible twos,” or adults experiencing a “mid-life crisis.” Aging is a time when there is unpredictability of one’s number and how that number places a person in society, reflecting on how the retirement age changed from 65 and will continue to climb. With these limited examples, American culture tends to have a negative perspective of aging. We may not know the damage we are causing along the way; but at one point, the perspective our society has on aging and the roles individuals play in a society, will cause people to experience the phenomenon known as the “integrity vs. despair crisis of late adulthood” (2011, p. 78). Those who grow old will eventually question their existence, and if it is meaningful by how they gathered clues throughout their lives to define success and …show more content…
As a new mother, I formed a judgment that the best way to parent was my way. This did not negate medical advice or ignore people with knowledge; but parenting became easier when I filtered out what did not work for me, and focused on what worked for my family. I believe that is what cultures do; they figure out what works for them and create avenues to meet their goals. The mistake that humans make is the decision to impose one’s beliefs on others and govern their style of
Cultural Views of Aging
The writing mentions the process of socialization and the varying views of aging across cultures. Socialization characterizes how “an individual becomes a member of a particular culture and takes on its values, beliefs, …show more content…
Aging is a time to categorize stages in undesirable terms, like a child entering the “terrible twos,” or adults experiencing a “mid-life crisis.” Aging is a time when there is unpredictability of one’s number and how that number places a person in society, reflecting on how the retirement age changed from 65 and will continue to climb. With these limited examples, American culture tends to have a negative perspective of aging. We may not know the damage we are causing along the way; but at one point, the perspective our society has on aging and the roles individuals play in a society, will cause people to experience the phenomenon known as the “integrity vs. despair crisis of late adulthood” (2011, p. 78). Those who grow old will eventually question their existence, and if it is meaningful by how they gathered clues throughout their lives to define success and …show more content…
As a new mother, I formed a judgment that the best way to parent was my way. This did not negate medical advice or ignore people with knowledge; but parenting became easier when I filtered out what did not work for me, and focused on what worked for my family. I believe that is what cultures do; they figure out what works for them and create avenues to meet their goals. The mistake that humans make is the decision to impose one’s beliefs on others and govern their style of