In the movie “Babies” I witnessed cultural differences between four babies lives. In the beginning of the film it started off showing all of the babies, including introducing them; Mari from Japan, Hattie from San Francisco, Ponijao from Namibia and Bayar from Mongolia. These babies coming from 4 divergent countries will be growing up differently; the video will show them from the beginning of their precious lives up until they start walking. The 2010 film Babies demonstrates the cultures of Namibia, Mongolia, Japan and the US from the Conflict Theorists perspective. I witnessed many cultural universals in the movie Babies. Cultural universals are common features that have been found in all human cultures. Cultural Universals examples for a family would be the mothers taking care of the children throughout the whole film. In order for the babies to function they have to eat, whether it be by breastmilk or formula. The babies also had a roof over their heads. Hattie lived in a house, Mari lived in a small apartment, Bayar lived in a yurt, and Ponijao lived in a tiny hut. Babies always need to have something to fidget with in their little hands, in the movie the babies experienced playing. Granted playing means different things, an example would be when Ponijao played with dirty sticks and …show more content…
A folkway is a norm that describes socially acceptable behaviors or traditions. A couple folkways that come to mind after watching the film include when Hattie was celebrating her birthday, she had tons of friends and family over for a party, while Bayar was brought to a party by his family. Mores are norms that have great moral significance attached to them. When Hatties mom was teaching her right from wrong, they read a book on hitting and how it is bad. Another example would be when Bayar was playing in the bucket of water and he tipped it over, his mother spanked him because that was
Environment has always played an important role on how children are raised. Throughout child developmental psychology, many different theorist’s views on how environment effects a child development differently, or if it plays any role at all in a child developing with a healthy psyche. In the film Babies (2010), we are introduced to two human babies living in distinctively different parts of the world and we are given a glimpse of their lives as they grow and develop. In the film, we are introduced to Ponijao from the rural area of Opuwo, Namibia, who lives with his mother and his siblings. In another area of the world, the urban city of San Francisco, U.S., we are introduced to Hattie, who lives with her mother and father.
The film Babies is a film that follows four babies from San Francisco, Tokyo, Mongolia, and Namibia through their first year of life. The film has no talking or narrative. In many scenes, you don’t even see adults. This helps you get to see a baby’s perspective on the world. This movie showed how different cultures are when it comes to raising children.
In the movie it had a lot of things that had to do with culture and society. Culture is the “collection of values, beliefs, knowledge, and material objects shared by
The movie has its sociocultural aspect of the families in the movie is more interaction and been supportive for one another. It seems to be a culture for the family to always reunite at some point in their life to cherish and love each other. The community where Madea and Vanessa lives is quite different and lower class type of environment compared to where her mother Victoria and sister Lisa resides. Victoria is self centered in her communication by only caring about what benefits her whenever she has conversation with her daughters.
Folkway can be described as community customs. Folkways can also refer to the standards of behavior that are socially accepted, however, not morally significant. They are considered the norms for everyday behavior that the community is expected to follow for the purpose of tradition and convenience. Norms on the other hand can be described as particular cultural expectations that govern the behavior of people in a society. Breaking a folkway is not a serious offence and does not lead to a sanction. Examples of folkways include cultural forms of food habits and dress.
When brining folkways into social settings, it can disturb the expectations of what the social norms of an everyday situation should be. Throughout our lives we learn that there are expectations for how we should act in public, including how you meet someone to even waiting your turn in lines. But inside of folkways there are also social norms called mores. This stands for what is seen as right or wrong, or rude or acceptable in societies. With these ideas in mind, there are many situations in which someone could go against a normal folkway and disrupt a social situation.
“Babies”. Is a documentary made by the Thomas Balmés. It offers a window on the lives of four infants in four completely different cultures. This is not a usual kind of documentary; there are no narration, no subtitles and actual dialogue was very minimal. The film explores childhood rituals, enculturation, socialization and parenthood. I will try to explore each of these themes and try to make the case that behaviors, values and fears are learned not something congenital. It has, in my opinion, comparative perspectives and different methods in rearing children in different societies. It achieves this by cutting the scenes in certain ways to show the differences between these different children. For example, in one part of the film, both Bayarjargal (the Mongolian child) and Mari (the Japanese child) were playing with their pet cats and then the two scenes were edited to a shot of Ponijo (the Namibian child) looking interested in flies. The four children developed in somewhat similar ways. However, there are differences in their behaviors due to the enculturation by seeing their parents or siblings who were doing what they thought to be the norms and the obvious landscape in which they are brought up. Two of the kids were born in rural areas (Namibia and Mongolia) and two were born in urban areas (the United States and Japan). The mothers of these infants were interviewed and chosen to be in the film
The French documentary Babies shows the first year of development of four different babies who live in four completely different environments. The film follows Ponijao, a little girl from Namibia, Bayar, a little boy from Mongolia, Mari, a girl from Tokyo, and Hattie, a girl from San Francisco. Even though the babies live in very dissimilar parts of the world, their physical, cognitive, and social development seem to all follow a set pattern. On the other hand, the babies learn to do some activities distinctive to their environment by watching their parents and siblings. Therefore, Babies provides evidence to support both the nature and nurture sides of the debate.
stereotypes of childhood Cultural diversity is defined as a mixture of diverse cultures that return to many regions of the world and bring together the culture of each country. This gives the cultural scene a lot of depth and diversity, and gives it the status of universality, especially if this diversity is built on solid foundations that attract the highest cultures and the usefulness of the depth of civilization and human great, and make them a mix of homogeneous and includes many skills coming from different communities around the world, and this difference of cultures to different communities and people and the way of education and different religions and political and economic affiliations. When a child moves to a different culture
They need adequate space to move freely and openly. Activity quilts and playmats provide infants with core strengthen and hand-eye coordination. Sock and wrist rattles help to develop gross motor skills such swing of the arm for baseball and kicking of the legs for running. Balls (at least 1.75 inches in diameter) stimulates the large motor skills by encouraging chase by crawling, walking, or running. Infants need opportunities to pull up with assistance to promote walking this can be done with baby musical tables. These can also help to develop fine motor as well because of the different features and functions of the table the require the use of ulnar and pincer grasp. Toys that make noise such as squeaky toys, simple musical instruments that make a noise when your baby bangs on them, toy phones, and activity cubes that make a noise when your baby pokes, squeezes, or shakes them, stimulates the use of these grasp as
In society, there are rules- written and nonwritten- that define how Americans live and interact with each other. Mores and folkways are what we call these rules. According to William Graham Sumner, a sociologist, a more is a rule or law that a person is punished for socially and/or criminally. (Boundless 2016) For example, lying, and stealing. A folkway is a norm that does not really have a punishment. Such as, holding a hand out and greeting people on the street.
Folkway norms are only minor rules; these are the norms I will be deviating from. I will be breaking a social norm while dining out by not wearing any makeup to a very formal dinner, while the other will be regarding my personal behavior by buying someone else’s meal. I expect that not
Folkways, mores and taboos are types of norms: folkways are also known as “conventions” or “customs,” which are standards of behavior that are socially approved but not morally significant and are not strictly enforced. (Cliffs Notes, 2015; Henslin p.47) When people are expected to follow folkways but do not, individuals most likely will not shrug their shoulders or make a big deal about it if they do not. If someone belched loudly while eating at the dinner table with other people, he or she would be breaking a folkway. It is culturally appropriate to not belch at the dinner table, however if this folkway is broken, there are no moral or legal consequences.
For instance, the visual child image, including contextual influences such as culture, value and beliefs, as well as the role the adult plays. These two childhood models represent opposite ends of the scale. How a western society child appears and how the child life appears in a third world country as seen by the child in Figure 2 and Figure 3. The victim child is from a place of poverty, famine with a low economic status living through war or terror from social and political forces in a ravaged town. Therefore, the child goes unnoticed, neglected, as well as unprotected by the adult or even absent.
Play has always been an important part of a child’s developmental stage. It was “. . . acknowledged as a basic right of children worldwide in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which by the end of 2008 was signed by 192 nations” (Ozanne and Ozanne 264). People worldwide have acknowledged that it is important for a child to play; whether it be with toys bought from a store, or simple toy elements made from cloth such as blankets.