In every society, there is culture. Culture varies from place to place. It is acquired and learned. Socialization is the process of learning the culture. (Eitzen and Zinn, 1991) It starts at birth and ends at death. As we dissect its parts, we'll learn that one of the primary agents of socialization is the family. With here, we start the discussion about how the enculturation in the family either be accepted or rejected by its members using several theories as our lenses in analyzing their behavior.
The story of Crazy Beautiful You started with a rebellious teenager, Jacqueline Pascual. Jackie grew up in a broken family. She was left in her father's place while her mother and brother went abroad. By her father having married again for the second time, she became the middle-born in her family. Base on Frank Sulloway's Birth-Order Effect, almost all the traits especially the feeling of being unloved and neglected manifested in Jackie. The abandonment of Jackie's mother of her family led to something that made her rebellious. She reacted against everything that her father wants and treated him as if nothing. She became more attached to her peers and the social media. On the other hand, there is Kiko. He also came from a broken family. He was the oldest son of their town mayor's second family. But as opposed to Jackie, Kiko remained as a loyal son to the mayor and even acted as his right hand in helping the residents especially the indigenous people. As Sulloway's theory has stated, some traits has also manifested in him. (e.g., good leadership, determined, pressured, and people pleaser) I believe that this biological explanation for Jackie's rebellion and Kiko's loyalty may be a part of a person, but what makes a person a 'person' really is built in her/his socialization process.
One theory which fits this topic is George Herbert Mead's "The Social Self". This theory believes that the 'self' or a person's perception about herself is built by how social experience develops an individual's personality. Jackie's first most extreme social experience happened when she was still a young girl. Her parents got in to fight and decided to separate. Her mom left with her older brother and she felt devastated for being left with her father who is not really emotionally attached to her. She grew up with only her nannies taking care of her deprived of a mother figure and a father's love. She then started to see herself or her 'self' to her peers who badly influenced her. She became a social deviant because of this experience. But if we are to analyze Kiko's experience, the result will be the other way around. In Kiko's case, he was empowered. He reacted to that social phenomenon, positively. He didn't let the issue take over him and manipulate him. Instead, he used it to become the source of his strength and against his inability to helping people because of his economic status. He became the role model for her siblings and almost everybody in their town.
Both Jackie and Kiko were shaped by their social experiences inside their homes. They experienced almost the same case but came out differently. They were socialized by their families in a way other 'normal' families would differently do. The way they acted out in the socialization process that they undergone could I either bring a positive or negative impact that the culture they are forming and/dealing with if passed to future generations.
The story of Crazy Beautiful You started with a rebellious teenager, Jacqueline Pascual. Jackie grew up in a broken family. She was left in her father's place while her mother and brother went abroad. By her father having married again for the second time, she became the middle-born in her family. Base on Frank Sulloway's Birth-Order Effect, almost all the traits especially the feeling of being unloved and neglected manifested in Jackie. The abandonment of Jackie's mother of her family led to something that made her rebellious. She reacted against everything that her father wants and treated him as if nothing. She became more attached to her peers and the social media. On the other hand, there is Kiko. He also came from a broken family. He was the oldest son of their town mayor's second family. But as opposed to Jackie, Kiko remained as a loyal son to the mayor and even acted as his right hand in helping the residents especially the indigenous people. As Sulloway's theory has stated, some traits has also manifested in him. (e.g., good leadership, determined, pressured, and people pleaser) I believe that this biological explanation for Jackie's rebellion and Kiko's loyalty may be a part of a person, but what makes a person a 'person' really is built in her/his socialization process.
One theory which fits this topic is George Herbert Mead's "The Social Self". This theory believes that the 'self' or a person's perception about herself is built by how social experience develops an individual's personality. Jackie's first most extreme social experience happened when she was still a young girl. Her parents got in to fight and decided to separate. Her mom left with her older brother and she felt devastated for being left with her father who is not really emotionally attached to her. She grew up with only her nannies taking care of her deprived of a mother figure and a father's love. She then started to see herself or her 'self' to her peers who badly influenced her. She became a social deviant because of this experience. But if we are to analyze Kiko's experience, the result will be the other way around. In Kiko's case, he was empowered. He reacted to that social phenomenon, positively. He didn't let the issue take over him and manipulate him. Instead, he used it to become the source of his strength and against his inability to helping people because of his economic status. He became the role model for her siblings and almost everybody in their town.
Both Jackie and Kiko were shaped by their social experiences inside their homes. They experienced almost the same case but came out differently. They were socialized by their families in a way other 'normal' families would differently do. The way they acted out in the socialization process that they undergone could I either bring a positive or negative impact that the culture they are forming and/dealing with if passed to future generations.
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