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This report is based on the like history of Ruth A White. I am going to talk about her life journey from young adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood. Ruth who is 70 years old and she live with her husband. As she was growing up try to fit into the roles she desire to fit into. And at the time she was seeking from her partners but also fear rejection and tends to start feeling isolated. All she wanted was for someone to love and care for her. She said that during this time she eager on meeting people and establishing a solid group of friends as well as a network that will boost her careers. She was able to find identities and was willing to enter committed relationships and that is how she met Richard White her husband. As Erikson projected in his theory once identities have been established, marriage and close relationships are entered into, and emotional bonds develop that can ask for sacrifices and other demands. And that is what happens to this two loving couple.
In terms of physical growth and development, Ruth was in the prime of her life. Her organs and systems are all operating at peak efficiency in her young adulthood, roughly ages 20 to 40. Her whole body's internal organs and body systems have reached maturity and are at peak operation in terms of her strength and efficiency. According to her she said by the time she was in her mid-twenties, she reached her full height of 5 feet 8 inches. Her body has grown, and her physical potential was set. She said she took advantage of that by eating correctly and by working out to get stronger. At this time in life when she reaches her peak physically. The growth spurt that came during puberty set the ground work for what she is capable of becoming as a young adult. Her...
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...aid the values at this stage are set and solid and nothing can change the thought process or the sensitivity with which she now views the world. According Erik Erikson theory every individual may have different experiences in childhood that will mark their journey into adulthood and experiences of social development into adulthood. As such, the process of social development is different for each individual, and it is not necessary that you be able to identify with every stage in life.
I will say this was a wonderful experience for me to interview Ruth as I know that each and every one of us has to go through all this different stages in life. I am only 23 years old and I am still trying to find a commitment relationship that I can be happy with like Ruth and Richard did. I really did admire their lives history and I am glad to have this chance to write this report.
The journey of Ruth Hall is having a family that would push her around to be more “ladylike.” She basically does what her family would tell her to do, which is not what Ruth Hall wanted. But to make her family happy, she ended up doing what her family told her to do in the first place. Her life is also tragic in her own way. It may not be like Linda Brent’s story of suffering through slavery. Ruth Hall’s story is more like suffering through the criticism of women. Hall’s life seemed to be okay at first since she has gotten married and had her first child. It was then that her life started to spiral with the death of her first daughter, then the death of her husband. Due to her husband passing away, her family and her in-law’s family believes she is no longer a capable woman to take care of her two children without a man in the house.
Ruth led a life broken in two. Her later life consists of the large family she creates with the two men she marries, and her awkwardness of living between two racial cultures. She kept her earlier life a secret from her children, for she did not wish to revisit her past by explaining her precedent years. Once he uncovered Ruth's earlier life, James could define his identity by the truth of Ruth's pain, through the relations she left behind and then by the experiences James endured within the family she created. As her son, James could not truly understand himself until he uncovered the truth within the halves of his mother's life, thus completing the mold of his own identity.
Both Erik Erikson’s (1963) theory and Mary Ainsworth and John Bowlby (1973) theory support the idea that early life experiences impact the person across their lifespan. Both theories believe that personality begins to develop from a young age and therefore occurrences in early life can have lasting impacts on the developmental of an individual. An individual’s social and psychological development is significantly influenced by early life and childhood experiences. The experiences an individual has as a child impacts on the development of social skills, social behaviours, morals and values of an individual.
The most important and main relationship would have to be between Ruth and her mother, LuLing. LuLing always kept very strict rule over Ruth, and was very critical of everything she did. This wasn't because LuLing didn't trust Ruth or wasn't proud of her, LuLing was just raised where these behaviors meant that the person giving the rules and criticism cared and wanted only the best for the other. Ruth didn't understand this because unlike her mother, none ever explained that to her. Ruth always felt LuLing didn't trust her and didn't approve of anything she did. The fact that Ruth never told her mother that she felt this way mad it so her mother didn't know that her way of showing love was not getting the point across. LuLing also kept secrets about her past, about her mothers identity, how she changed her age, and what she went through in China. Those secrets took away the opportunity for Ruth to relate to her mother or understand her more. It also led Ruth to believe her mother was loosing her mind at an alarming rate, after being diagnosed with brain Dementia, when really LuLing was for the most part only forgetting to keep up with her lies.
After five years of being raised and living with their grandmother whom they truly loved, the girls had a rude awakening. Their grandmother, Sylvia had passed away. “When after almost five years, my grandmother one winter morning eschewed awakening, Lily and Nona were fetched from Spokane and took up housekeeping in Fingerbone, just as my grandmother had wished” (Robinson 29). This was the final attempt that their grandmother had made in order for the girls to have a normal and traditional life. This is a solid example of how the sister’s lives are shaped by their family and their surroundings. Lucille’s ultimate concern in life is to conform to society and live a traditional life. She wishes to have a normal family and is sorrowful for all of the losses that she has experienced such as her mother’s and grandmother’s deaths. On the other hand, Ruthie, after spending more time with her future guardian, Aunt Sylvie, becomes quite the transient like her.
Erik Erikson formulated a model to understand the developmental tasks involved in the social and emotional development of children and teenagers which continues into adulthood. Each stage is regarded by Erikson as a “psychosocial crisis,” which arises and demands resolution before the next stage can be satisfactorily negotiated. Failure to successfully complete a stage can result in a
Ruth is Walter's wife. Her dream is to have a happy family but she also wants to be wealthy.
Unlike Ruth in “The Book of Ruth”, looking for a spouse to provide for me is something I will not be doing. I am facing the same internal struggle in the sense that I am trying to get into a respected college, so that I can have a vigorous career and be able to provide for myself. Ruth chose to leave her home country, where she was husbandless and without prospects, in an age when a woman’s only means of survival was to be supported by a husband. Ruth did not know what she would find in Naomi’s country, but decided to take the chance so she could care for her mother-in-law. Following her mother-in-law’s wise advice, she ends up marrying a good man. I too will seek wise advice and take a leap of faith on which college to attend and prepare for my future. Essentially, both Ruth and I are trying to thrive in our worlds.
Eric Erikson was one of the most famous theorists of the twentieth century; he created many theories. One of the most talked about theories is his theory of psychosocial development. This is a theory that describes stages in which an individual should pass as they are going through life. His theory includes nine stages all together. The original theory only included eight stages but Erikson‘s wife found a ninth stage and published it after his death. The nine stages include: trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame and doubt, initiative vs. guilt, industry vs. inferiority, identity vs. identity confusion, intimacy vs. isolation, generativity vs. stagnation, integrity vs. despair, and hope and faith vs. despair (Crandell and Crandell, p.35-36)).
Erikson’s psychosocial theory in which social interactions cause growth and change. Cady’s social interactions with others cause change with her autonomy. Cady loses herself by changing her values and character in the beginning of the film and towards the end of the film she finds self-recognition. Adolescence is a critical time during development because internal and external sources have a strong influence.
The Book of Ruth is a story of a family whose members want desperately to be loved, but cannot because their tragic flaws grind harshly against one another, surprisingly, Ruth is the one that seems to tolerate.
"...[Ruth's] passions were narrow but deep. Long deprived of sex, long dependent on self-manipulation, she saw her son’s imminent death as the annihilation of the last occasion she had been made love to" (134).
Psychosocial development is development on a social realm. Psychosocial development is how one develops their mind, maturity level, and emotions over the course of one’s life. The rate of development depends on different factors such as biological processes as well as environmental factors. A man named Erik Erikson who was a psychoanalyst who believed that early childhood successes and failures were responsible for influencing later developmental stages developed this theory. Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development is based around the theory that social experience has an impact over an entire lifespan. There are eight stages developmental stages of development in the psychosocial theory and I will briefly examine all eight stages in this
Erikson’s theory has some limitations. It seems to focus mainly on childhood, even though it does span the entire life. Another limitation in the theory is how it is applied to other cultures. Each culture is in its own category and has a different way of doing things. Erikson’s stages are rather concrete, whereas numerous cultures vary in ages of toilet training, breastfeeding, and even marriage. Since Erikson’s theory has rather concrete stages, how would these types of cultures fit into his model? Yet another limitation to Erikson’s theory is how can one resolve an issue within a certain stage? These are unlimited examples of both strength and weaknesses.
Erik Erikson was a developmental psychologist known for his theory on psychosocial development. Unlike other theorists of his time Erikson’s theory focused on human development across the lifespan from birth to late adulthood. Erickson believed that development change occurs through out our lives in eight distinctive stages that emerge in a fixed pattern and are similar for all people. Erickson argued that each stage presents a crisis or conflict which results in either a positive or negative outcome (Feldman). In this essay I will identify incidents in my own life that demonstrate each stage of development according to Erickson that I have lived through. I will also interview my Aunt Tami who will share her experiences for the remainder stages of Erickson’s development that I have not gone through thus far.