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Week 2 Discussion: The Games ChildrenPlay
Initial Post Instructions
In the article noted in this activity, the authors point out that most introductory sociology
textbooks identify the main socialization agents as family, peers, schools, media, work,
and religion. "...[W]hat is far less often acknowledged is the contribution that children's
toys and games play in representing and reinforcing dominant conceptions of
'appropriate' social identities found in social discourse and in institutional
arrangements." Toys and games can allow us to experience the subtleties of race,
class, gender, and political socialization that are embedded in play. Sometimes players
may challenge and subvert these images and messages at the delight or disgust of
other players.
For the initial post, address the following:
What toys did you have as a child that you think of as agents of socialization?
How did you use toys to understand relationships, or prepare for new ones?
What specific theoretical perspectives on socialization from this week's reading
(symbolic interactionist, functionalist and/or conflict theoretical perspectives) best help
you understand your childhood toys as agents of socialization and why?
As a child my most prized possessions were my Barbies. I can remember playing with
Barbies as far back as I am able to recall and honestly still did their hair probably into
Middle School. I was extremely protective of my giant Barbie collection, and if my sister
even so much as looked at them I would lose it. I have no idea why I was so protective
of them or why I was literally obsessed with them, but I spent hours and hours playing
with them growing up. I think I mostly played out situations with the Barbies that I was
familiar with in my life; two parents, a younger sister, cousins, etc. I was never super
imaginative with them and kind of stuck to what I knew. Looking back, I was a very
naïve child when it came to understanding the world outside of my life. I took things
very literally and it took me well into my early twenties to have a more open outlook on
others’ situations and the world itself. Not very proud of it, but it is what it is.
Anyways, my dad had built shelves surrounding one of the windows in my room and I
cleared all of the stuff off of them to create Barbie condos and I would decorate their
‘condos’ as if I was their interior designer. I think as I got older it became less about the
Barbies interacting and more me just sort of staging their pretend lives. I didn’t play with
my Barbies with others too often for a couple reasons; no one else was as obsessed
with them as me and when people were over, we were usually outside playing in my
treehouse or the pool.
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