Social Psychology Autobiography

Hello. My name is Sara Schafer.

And welcome to my social psychology autobiography, Final for myself

in society class, the summer term.

I really just want to take a pause in one

moment to look at the whole presentation because I did

choose this theme for just a reason.

As you can see, that has, like, a blossoming flower

approach. And I chose that because I feel like just

like a flower going from a seed toe, a blossom

that really Miers the image, um, for the meaning of

socialization. Because, as though Brian text A It is a

very dynamic process, just like the growth of the flower.

And so that is the theme going to be going

on throughout my whole presentation.

It's gonna be how did I start off over the

roots? And then how old did that socialization process?

How is I influenced by society?

How did I have influence society and grow and blossom

into the identity and the person that I am today?

So we're gonna go ahead and start off with the

roots in the grounds of where I became.

So my childhood I grew up in Anthony I'll, which

is a very upper class white society.

I'm I think that played a large role in developing

and putting in some of the core values and ideas

that I still in some ways carry with me today.

Um, two quotes that really found interesting and that related

to me throughout this, um, semester Waas.

The impact of family primary socialization take place largely on

the influence of significant others.

O'Brien 1 40 And when I think about this, I

think of the amount of influence that my parents had

on me during this primary part of my life.

Um, things A ZX Well, as my friends in my

society, all of my family, all of my church, all

of my teachers, all of my classmates are all the

people, my computing community, all the people in my sports

seem they were all white, they were all middle class.

And so I never really got any differences in culture

besides those that I grew up with and specifically aggressive

suit get significant others.

It is important to talk about my parents because growing

up those are I means tool of socialization.

And I think a quote that really applies to the

values my parents And still that me is the tendency

to assume individual responsibility over social forces is known as

the fundamental attribute irritation.

Air people are more likely to attribute behaviors, individual personality

and character trades than to social context.

O brien 31.

And this is something that I really believe my parents

influenced me.

What? This is something that that internal, that external force

acting on me.

This is something that I referenced throughout my childhood.

My parents have both been very independent destiny seekers.

They made their own fortune, they made their own life.

Um, and that is what they have always taught me.

My brother.

They have always taught us that if we want good

grades, we have to work for it.

If we're not getting good grades, it's a Rome fall.

If we're not the best from sports team, you have

to practice harder.

It's very much that you control your own destiny to

life. That individual is, um, that overall American value of

you can change yourself only if you're willing to is

something that was always heavily placed on me throughout the

1st 18 years of my life.

And so I think that is one way that a

specific group, especially my parents, have influenced me.

My parents did this.

It was also mirrored and my friends, because that's what

their friend, their parents were teaching them because their parents

were mostly just like mine and upper white class middle

family who was married.

And so I never really had anything other than this

this idea, this concept, this, um, theme.

And that's how I went throughout my life.

And so that is just one way that I know

in the core value of me and that I've carried

on is this fundamental idea that I'm in control of

my destiny in that society doesn't have any influence on

me. I if I fail, it's because of me.

If I do ballots because of me, um, I do

wanna look over all the ground, which overall, during my

primary years of developed, I mean my primary years of

development. I attributed three main concepts, and that is what

I talked about.

Life is individual accountability.

Um, life is easy and worth living.

That is something that I very much referenced from my

social environment.

Everyone else around me didn't have trouble with money.

They didn't have trouble with racism.

They didn't harm trouble with any sort of limits.

We all grew up with this idea that America, any

struggles that were happening were very much in the pastor.

Outside of our bubble, Anthony was this bubble, and everything

that was going around was kind of outside.

And so I always had contacts.

I was aware that people might be living in poverty

or experiencing racism.

It was never come created in my mind because I

never had that experience or reference point to Comparator.

I never had anything.

I never saw anything like that.

And so overall, I think that really played eight point

and developing myself as I go into college.

The second point that I want to move on to

is the breaking ground, and just like as a Florida's

through its used to growing in the dark and all

of a sudden it sees sunlight, and then it breaks

through its unnecessary breakthrough in order to help it grow

and to achieve that sunlight.

And so I really think that's what college did for

me. I moved into a different society and moved into

a second reference point that was really not like anything

that I experienced that my childhood in Ankan E.

And I think that's really where some of these, um,

connections to the text really stood out with me.

Especially some quotes, each man's look outlook as well.

Shaved, unlimited by communication networks in which he has become

involved. I really only had one type of reference group

as a child, and so my outlook on life was

very singular.

I didn't have very like there was no variation and

culture. There was own variation, which I saw the world

politically because everyone in my community thought the same way

as my parents.

And therefore I just grew up thinking like my parents,

and my outlook was very much shaped like shades by

the communication in the network in which I lived in

ankle here.

Secondly, reference groups are groups that serve as a source

of both social learning and internal assessment and evaluation.

I think this really goes back and adds on to

the second point because I was really using my parents

in my community to assess and evaluate my own values

in my ways of thinking towards society, whoever when I

moved to rebuke and I met people who lived in

poverty. I saw my friends of who are people of

color, experience, racism and I saw E started becoming friends

of faculty and staff who had different political opinions that

my parents, I all of a sudden had this new

social environment, this new reference group that I was then

able to change my social.

I took a drift of my socialisation process because I

was able to compare.

I had new ideas to concrete in my mind and

contrast with the first reference that I had, um going

on tens and observed that most students were strongly identified

with their college piers, the faculty and peer groups in

the local region.

Thes students express beliefs and commitments are very similar to

those of the faculty, and that's somewhat disdainful of the

D s that they just held a few years earlier.

I feel like this quote really defines what I found

in college because I did, I experienced this is that

same thing.

I left.

I started in high school.

One political value, one way of seeing life, one way

of seeing society.

And it has completely changed when I have been experience.

When I have been exposed to new viewpoints.

So I really think overall, that quote, but really applied

to how society really influenced myself doing, um, diving deeper

into college overall since moved because I believe that I've

grown in many outlets, including the ability to question my

own values with percent with new information, because I was

just thrown into a new social reference group in new

social environment.

And so I had to learn from that environment and

change myself.

A quote that I really like is all of us.

All of us use experience in some degree of tension

and contradiction and various behaviors that we consider to be

core aspects of ourself.

The way we in which we consider work through these

contradictions shape are developing sense of self.

The best example I have of this is when I

was working with immigrants in um from the community for

my honors project, and I learned about what had happened

to Pacific Islanders in the community and how they weren't

really given many of the rights in the opportunities that

Americans were given, and that really contradicted with my core

value that I was topping that parents in my original

reference group of you control your own destiny.

If you work hard, you will get there because I

was realizing now that there was a group of people

that no matter how hard they worked, they were never

going to get there, that there was some influence of

society. And that was not just your own individual destiny.

This that was something that contradicted something that I had

always learned to my roots in my core behaviour.

And after seeing that experiencing my new social environment, my

new social context, I was able to kind of change

my ideas and change my core values and I was

a huge process in my socialisation is because I developed

a new sense of self through those new experiences.

Lastly, going on to kind of like the last part,

the blossoming.

And this is something that has really happened in the

spring in the last few parts of my upperclassmen career.

It's why I level the spring full of change, um,

is because I've really been able in the last three

months, with everything going on in society and especially taking

this class is really reflect on how I have changed

in regards to receiving a new social reference point and

new social environment, Um, and then going forward how that

is going to continue to change my socialisation process.

A few quotes that I really wanna drop or mention

is that Jacob highlights Jacobson highlights.

One important element has been repeatedly shown to be significant

influence before performance.

The power believes to shape behavior.

And so I really want to focus on, like the

last part, the power believes to shape behavior because I

feel like this is the part where, throughout my whole

socialization process, I have had a lot of community and

group influence on myself.

However, going forward after this class after time to reflect

in the spring time with all those bank going on,

it's now my turn to be able to influence society

and, um, and the power of beliefs to shape behavior.

Now do my college experience.

I've changed my beliefs.

I have changed my socialisation halfway.

I have changed how I view society and therefore that's

gonna shake my behavior in the future.

Now that I have seen a lot of the poverty

in that I never saw myself that I've ever seen

the problems regarding race and gender that I never saw

my childhood in those roots.

My behavior is going to change from the people.

As a health care provider, I can take those changed

beliefs and go forth and try and change a large

institution. In a small way, I mean a drop in

an ocean.

But use that in those change beliefs, um, to manipulate

my behavior in regards to giving the best care that

I can for people of color, for minorities, for women,

LGBT que community.

And so that is just one way that I see

myself in the future.

After having this reflection in the class to see Harrell

mine, new beliefs are going to shape my future behaviours.

The second thing that I really wanted to focus on

was the oppression is a construction that requires the cover

cooperation of many social actors, those during the oppressing in

those being oppressed according to hoax betweens, either to join

the construction of the oppression or withdraw our support.

And I think this again really builds on to the

idea that I was adding on to earlier was that

Now that I know now I can see myself.

I've been socialized to receive my own viewpoints, taking my

own experiences.

I've had two different social reference groups in which I

can pull, um, ideas and cultures from, um, it is

my I see it is my duty or my next

part in society as a growing adult who is going

to become a citizen of a community is to, um,

withdraw support for those who are being oppressed.

Now that I see oppression happening, it's my duty to

not support.

It's my roll on society to try and alter that

way of thinking with my own actions that goes above

um, especially in the healthcare field.

This is really quite a quite a big problem.

There's still quite a bit, especially within the O, B,

G Y and field, which I do want to go

into. There's a lot more deaths with people of color

because of some old notions.

That's where I can come in and make a difference.

That's where my own socialisation can play a role.

That's where I can go on and now shape society.

Or I can influence society because I can talk with

my coworkers.

I can talk with my patients I can talk with

other health care providers about my viewpoints and hopefully change

outlooks or change opinions.

Um, for those who are going through their own socialisation

process at the point So overall, when going through it,

um, my socialisation looking back on it, I had one

socialization reference group, and then coming through college is a

really large breakthrough.

And then I had a different group of people of

professors of viewpoints that I could draw opinions from and

through that I've really been able to for the past

of years lost him into a different thinking, so

Social Psychology Autobiography

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