Thursday, November 4, 2010
Milestones
In class, we talked about all of the different milestones in our lives as Americans. One thing that I found very interesting was that we saw the mile stones as more of a process that comes with age. Instead of thinking of these ideas as important improvements in our life such as learning how to talk or walk, we saw it as events that come with age such as getting a licence. This tells a lot about our lives because I feel that events that we see as important are the events in which we gain privileges. This can really be seen as far as ideas such as getting a licence at 16, being a legal adult at age 18, and being able to see R movies at 17. However, we do not have any physical gain in being able to walk so we do not see it as an important milestone. Overall I see the milestone project as a reference to when we talked about the importance of materialism in our society.
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I agree, there is more emphasis put on milestones like at 18 being legallt considered an adult than there is on more meaningful developments like learning to walk.
ReplyDeleteI think these milestone don't really mean anything, like Sal said do you really become a better driver once you turn 16? No, its just something society creates
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that events that we gain priveleges are important, I think that really the events we think are important are the ones that we can remember. Of course talking is a huge milestone, but I don't think that anyone can remember exactly what they were doing when they said their first word unless their parents tell them.
ReplyDeleteInteresting to connect the milestones to materialism. Do you also see how these can create a social construction of adolescence/teenagers and how difficulties can arise from that?
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