The choices of education and occupation of children are highly correlated with their parents. These choices are affected by the nature and nurture of the child and family. Socio-Cultural norms shed the light on the mechanisms of thoughts which affect the nature and nurture with the correlation of education. Education is the foremost tool of empowering the society, but social and cultural norms play an important role in shaping the ways of education. The community of third gender faces lots of problem in getting educational and occupational opportunities. In order to know their educational problems and issues, there was a need to understand the concept of their socio-cultural norms. These norms and thoughts influence the demographic dividend
Cultural Differences in Child Development Expectations ABSTRACT -------- A small research has been carried in order to find out how different cultural backgrounds can influence a child’s developmental expectations in adults and the consequences of these expectations. The design of the method was a replication of Hess et al., 1980, study, applied into two mothers with early age daughters, coming from two different cultural backgrounds, English and Spanish. They answered at what age they thought different statements about child development would be reached by their children and being these statements about grouped into 6 main developmental areas the averages were calculated and compared. The results showed an earlier expectation of achievement in all areas of development, except for independence, in the English participant and a complete opposite position of the Spanish participant expecting a late development of the child in general.
Students who exhibit inappropriate, disruptive behaviors may do so for various reasons. The variety of explanations for problem behavior can cause confusion as to what specific interventions are best suitable for the individual student. There are frequent assumptions that knowing the cause of problematic behavior will assist with the best way to handle it. However, finding an effective intervention does not necessarily indicate the origin of cause for troublesome behavior. In fact, multiple causal factors are interrelated with the most common causal factors being family, school, biological, and culture. In consideration of a previous analysis on biological and family causal factors, this paper is intended to answer the following questions on the potential impact of school and cultural influences on emotional or behavioral disorders (EBD):
In item A it argues that the ‘cultural factors’ are the most important cause of social class differences. ‘Cultural factors’ can include cultural deprivation, cultural capital and material deprivation; they also link to the external and internal factors that are shown to have an influence in difference in class in the UK. The Internal factors are factors within the school and the education system and external factors such as factors outside the education system influences from home and family background.
Social norms refer to the way that members of a society are expected to act and behave. These norms provide structure and conformity for individuals within a society. They also provide a sense of “normalcy” amongst individuals within a society. In a society, “we tend to follow our own cultural norms without questioning them, because we regard them as the ‘norm’.” (Henslin,2012). To intentionally break a cultural norm, takes some thought and effort to consciously go against our inbred “culture within us.” When pondering about social norms that I could break and the reactions of others, I began brainstorming various social norms. One in particular norm came to mind. In American society there is a social norm that if you use the drive thru window
The education’s concepts and values had been distorted recently in the United States. The students, teachers and professors are suffering from the new agenda that control the educational system. Furthermore, the University and colleges become an instrument for the corporate conglomerates to do some marketing for their brands. On the same way, there is another factor effect on the educational system which is the culture. Mantsios and Barber were agreed about the commercialization issue and how it affects negatively on the educational system.Moreover, they had a similar point of view about the importance of the multicultural and equity. On the other hand, Knoblauch was more concerned
Every day of my life the sociology of “norms” is at work in my daily life. It works on a subconscious level, keeping me from acting “strange”. These norms are my guiding light to acting “normal” and fitting in with the societies that I am a part of, they tell me how to conduct myself and what my expectations of other’s behaviors should be.
The school dropout rate among girls is very high (almost 50 percent) due to the early marriage culture in the areas but the educational achievements of female students are much higher to that of male students at different levels of education.
Parental involvement promotes the social growth of a child. Children whose parents are involved in their education have many advantages. They have better grades, test scores, long-term academic achievement, attitudes and behavior than those with disinterested mothers and fathers (Gestwicki, 2001). Parents becoming involved in their child's schooling creates extra sources of social constraint to influence the child's behavior (McNeal, 2001). For example, parents talking to their children and becoming involved in the school conveys a message to the child of education being important. Parents should be talking with your children's teacher and letting her know about your family. The more she knows about your child, the better she will be able to connect with your child.
One can gain insight through participation and observations of lectures. The concepts that I grasped are based on the individuality and interest of various topics and how I perceive them. Through taking the course of Sociology of Education I have been able to read and conceptualize how prominent education is in the United States; therefore projecting that education is an important tool the modern world correlates with success. Individuals that subject themselves to receiving an education through research validate that they can reach their optimal potential. Sociology of Education covered vast areas of vital informations which put educations and its functions into perspectives by stages.
] Single-sex education is a phenomenon that developed in the last few years to enhance the education system, many parents believe that single-sex education is beneficial for their children, as it helps them to concentrate on their future and to achieve a higher academic level. The main reason for separating both boys and girls was culture and regions beliefs and that was before the 19th century, therefore single sex school was the most common education system. “Before the 19th century, single-sex schooling was common. During the 19th century, more and more coeducational schools were set up.” (Single-sex education, 2012). However, this topic has an unsettled controversy about the efficiency of this type of education on the children’s academic achievement, social skills and performance. Single-sex education should be minimized attributable to the tremendous influence it has on the students’ life in academically, socially and psychologically.
The traditional view of gender roles differs where women are nurturing, home oriented and calm. On the other hand, men are seen as the opposite. Nevertheless, the modern view does not distinguish these differences because of the greater involvement of the father in the family. The differences do not lie among the genders but the perspective of the individuals in society, both genders can contribute to each other’s works regardless of what sex they fall under. The society, religious institute, and media play a greater role in shaping these gender roles.
The consequences of avoiding teaching values in schools are serious problems for students. Students tend to get in conflict when it is time to make choices that it can be regarding their future. The future of students can be compromised by the lack of social values in them. Many incidents can be avoided by educating students social values in school. All of the sources used for this paper are a great justification of why teaching social values in school are indispensable for the future of the students. These sources stated that the lack of social values in some cases promotes students to end up being youthful offenders and pregnant adolescent mothers. At the same time, the lack of social values makes students do not have a stable self-esteem;
It’s the nature of parents to want the best for their children. They want to give the best clothes, the most nutritional food and what is the most important is the best education for their children. However, it is a little bit more complicated when it comes to decide what is best for their children’s education. It is very difficult to decide for the children’s education path especially when they are entering college or university, because at this age most children have not discovered their true identity and interest yet. A lot of students nowadays do not have any satisfactory answer when they were asked why they chose a particular course or subject in university. Most of them will probably answer because it is what their parents tell them to learn and this situation is really a concern that people need to put their thought into. University students should know why they want to take a particular course in order for them to have a clear life goal and ardour to achieve it. They should not hide behind their parents shadow and just blindly follow what their parents think they should do. It is vital for parents not to make final decision for their children’s field of studies due to the generation gap, dissimilar passion and also higher probability of inaccurate judgement.
Without delving into deep sociological theories of the nature of society, we can consider human societies as any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse and are those who recognize each other as associates, friends and acquaintances. Individuals who play certain roles and the relationships between each role form the society itself. The complexity of society makes it difficult for us to identify our relationships. Generally, societies form different norms and cultures and these norms and cultures will change. Despite the changes in ones society and culture, members of any society like happiness in their own ways. In complex societies, it is valid to question about our contributions to happiness of its members. While material contributions to societies meet the physical needs, mental problems and needs are more difficult to satisfy. This is the point where society and culture become intertwined.
Education is the main factor resulting in social change. Modern education plays a key role in changing the status and process of social mobility. It not only helps an individual in adapting to emerging social situation but also play creative role in liberating minds from the clutches of the established culture. Education among the Muslim women has been treated under two heads, that of religious and secular training. The traditional education pattern which is largely religious includes initiation of the children in the reading of the holy book. Traditional educational institutions were Maktabs and Madrassa where religious education was given to children’s. Secular education is imparted in two ways, either at home or at school. (Roy, 1979) In