Everyone has experienced resocialization at some point in their lives. No one goes through life completely unchanged by the people around them. My major resocialization occurred around the age of ten when I morphed from a homophobic, racist conservative into an extreme liberal. This was due to a person I met and my newfound love of the internet.
Resocialization occurs when a society changes a person’s thoughts, beliefs, and actions. This change can be lasting and shape who a person is or it can be impermanent and only affect who the person is when put in that social situation. “Learning new norms and values enables people to adapt, though newly learned things may contradict what was previously learned” (INSERT CITATION). Resocialization is the process by which people change and develop morals and values. “In adolescence, socialization is concerned with the development of overarching values and the self-image” (INSERT CITATION). As I went through
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the process of resocialization, my values and morals completely reversed. I grew up not knowing that boys sometimes liked boys and girls sometimes liked girls.
Whenever I first heard of this, I was with my father, and his distaste for the subject quickly let me know that it was not okay for someone be romantically involved with someone of the same gender. It was from my father that I also learned my racism. We did not so much outwardly hate people of other races; we simply belittled them and joked about stereotypes. I was exactly what you would expect a child raised in the South by conservative parents to be: an ignorant conservative who did not know any better.
One day, my sister introduced me to one of her friends. He was loud, funny, and nice. I liked him immediately. Then, my sister told me he was gay. Until this moment, I had never met a homosexual person and now that I had, I was shocked. This was when I first thought that homosexuality might not be a bad thing. By being around him and by having my sister tell me his sexuality was okay, I was resocialized into no longer being
homophobic. It was around ten years old that I first became interested in the internet. I loved talking to people and hearing new ideas. As my internet presence increased, so did my exposure to liberal ideas. I surrounded myself with this virtual people, and my conservative ideas quickly fled as my mind now housed the liberal ideas of the people around me. During this time, I became extremely liberal, as it was the social situation in which I found myself. My resocialization from a conservative to a liberal was relatively permanent. I am no longer in the social situation of being surrounded by all liberals or all conservatives. Rather, I now allow myself to be surrounded equally by both sides. As a result, my views have become more moderate, yet I am still a liberal. I do not think I will ever revert to my old ways of being a conservative. “The child and adolescent may be more easily malleable than the adult. Also, much adult socialization is self-initiated and voluntary; adults can leave or terminate the process at any time if they have the proper resources (symbolic, financial, and social) to do so” (INSERT CITATION). When I was younger, I was more susceptible to resocialization by the people I was around. Now that I have become more mature, I can control my morals and values and choose whether to allow them to be changed by society. I do not think I have reached the point of full control over resocialization, but I do believe there is not much more society can do to change my current political views.
It was after I had lost someone in my life that was my other half. I didn’t understand who I was, what my purpose was, what made me who I am. As far as I was concerned I was reduced to nothing more than an individual that was now alone. I didn’t realize that my identity was partly crafted from simply just being by their side all the time, that whenever I was introduced to someone, or was talking to mutuals about them, I was known for being their best friend. After the fiasco that became the end of our relationship, I felt as if I was just floating through the days and nights. This feeling went on for about 2 months until I slowly came out of it. I didn’t experience a grand epiphany of any sort that inspired me to change myself. I was painting and listening to music and the thought just slowly came to me. I love to paint, and I love listening to and creating and playing music. I began to gain back my sense of identity by engaging in activities I loved. I’m a painter, a musician, a writer, a passionate lover of movies. I’ve learned that identity can isn’t set in stone, there’s always room for
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