Did you know that 71.5% of all statistics are made up? That would be helpful information while deciphering the daily news paper and its rallying cry against teens as the moral corrupters of society. These teens did not grow up in a vacuum in which they had no one to influence them, there are people older than them who they look up to and imitate. If we want to look for someone to blame for this "corrupted youth" we don't have to look very far. What makes it into the news papers? Violence, Sex, and Crime. Who are these kids looking up to for their moral standards? In the 90's we had a president who was accused of having extra-marital sex with his secretary, and then lied about it. The biggest trial of the 90's was OJ Simpson and whether or not he killed his wife. We have TV showes like The Girls Next Door all about Hugh Hefner and his three busty girlfriends who are dumber than my 4 year old sister. Other showes include Flavor of Love, Rock of Love, Victoria's Secrets Lingerie Show, Law and Order SVU, etc... I could go on for an entire blog about the showes that promote Sex and show violence and sometimes show violent acts of sex.
The media has brought this upon us, Sex and Violence sell, and both are everywhere, what are we going to do about it? The best thing we can do is Education, but who doesn't like Sports Illustrated Swim Suit Edition? Commies, thats who.
I was deeply disturbed by the child "beauty" pageant article. The saddest thing is that, this isn't the only area where little kids are pressured into something by their parents. All around the world parents are trying to live their dreams out through their kids and most of the time the kids can not tell it is happening.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Adolescense-Gross
This was not the first that I've read/heard about adolescence being socially constructed. In pre-industrialized societies there is no adolescence, only childhood and adult.
G. Stanley Hill has some really really bad science. There are examples strewn throughout the chapter that seem a little less than reputable. There is also no time line for this adolescence "metamorphosis".
There is also a "metamorphosis", that does not make much sense.
Hill gives adolescence it's own "life" which is not fully developed, because America was not as old or conservative as Europe.
Hill makes a good point when he talked about adolescence being "plastic" bending and molding to different peoples views.
The thing is, adolescence is constructed for educational purposes. We have invented this "transitional" stage. The hormones have always been there but the social construct was such that there was no need to really deal with them. Now we stick all of these immature, MTV, reality show watching kids into a school and try to give them some sort of direction; but they have already picked out their role models and people our society has deemed "cool". Anyone who can not fit that mold is ostracized. Once ostracized it is very difficult to become "cool" and then clicks are formed and then the trouble starts. When teaching these youngsters we have more to deal with than just subject matter, we have all of these social problems to deal with as well, and that is more frightening than anything else.
G. Stanley Hill has some really really bad science. There are examples strewn throughout the chapter that seem a little less than reputable. There is also no time line for this adolescence "metamorphosis".
There is also a "metamorphosis", that does not make much sense.
Hill gives adolescence it's own "life" which is not fully developed, because America was not as old or conservative as Europe.
Hill makes a good point when he talked about adolescence being "plastic" bending and molding to different peoples views.
The thing is, adolescence is constructed for educational purposes. We have invented this "transitional" stage. The hormones have always been there but the social construct was such that there was no need to really deal with them. Now we stick all of these immature, MTV, reality show watching kids into a school and try to give them some sort of direction; but they have already picked out their role models and people our society has deemed "cool". Anyone who can not fit that mold is ostracized. Once ostracized it is very difficult to become "cool" and then clicks are formed and then the trouble starts. When teaching these youngsters we have more to deal with than just subject matter, we have all of these social problems to deal with as well, and that is more frightening than anything else.
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