[Week 3] Talking about socialization
For this week’s blog post, we were encouraged by Prof. Walsh to think about our personal journeys and to share how we are working to impact change in our communities. This week’s readings, “The Cycle of Socialization” and “The Cycle of Liberation,” both by Bobbie Harro, provide great frameworks to both analyze our personal journeys and evaluate how we are being actors of liberation in our communities. In her first chapter, Harro brings into question what roles we have been socialized to play, and encourages us to take one of our identities through the cycle of socialization. Since being a female is an identity I have held since birth, that is the identity I chose to explore. I am particularly interested in early-childhood gendered socialization, nowadays mostly because of my hypothetical considerations of how to be a good parent, but looking back on my own childhood I am able to see many instances in which I was taught to fulfill a certain role. My affinity with games and sport