What Is The Importance Of Socialization In The Story Of Genie

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Jose is a Latino man who had to change his name to Joe a well-known Caucasian name. That itself is a conflict with his culture and his family, because they want Jose to be his self and he can’t because of the way society is set up. Jose story reminded me of a situation that happened when I worked at a staffing agency for a small company called Brightstar. Brightstar is a small agency that hire Nursing Assistant and Nurses and we as staffer staff the employees to facilities that were low on staff. At the time I was just beginning and I use to help the manager go through so many applications and I use to forward the ones that I thought that were a good fit to my manager I would then get the okay from my manager to call and set up interviews. We would get over 30 applications with attached resumes a day with people who were well qualified. I never paid attention much to names …show more content…

Genies isolation caused her to not be able to perform basic human task. Like walking upright, talking, feeding herself, toileting herself, and her physical development was never learned because of her isolation. The fact that Genie had no contact with the outside world and not much positive contact with her parents it made her underdeveloped physically, emotionally, socially and psychologically. I feel like the process of socialization is important because it makes it possible for us to fully function as human beings. Socialization and social interaction are the normal development of humans. Without either, we would not be able to survive as humans. Socialization is the process of learning how to become part of a culture. Through socialization we as humans, learn our cultures language, role in life, and what is expected from us. It is also a very important process in forming our personalities. Without socialization a person will develop different physical and mental disabilities which happened in Genies

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