I Want To Be A Deviant

I have never stopped to think thoroughly about how I was mentally and socially raised, and how I became the person that I am today. I have always faced both explicit and subtle demands in my life, which I was not obligated to satisfy, but felt like I had to, in order to avoid being considered as deviant, because of that I have always tried, and still am trying to satisfy those demands to the best of my abilities. I won’t deny that a huge majority of people are facing the same issue, and I’m not in any way more special than they are, yet I always felt like I am always prioritizing what society asks from me, over what I want to do and be. For the longest time, I was unsure about which category getting a higher education would fit, but I now believe …show more content…
My relatives that are from the generation of my parents’ all have undergraduate degrees, while most of my relatives that are from my generation have a graduate degree. Though my older relatives have gotten their degrees in order to actually learn about a topic they are passionate about, my relatives that are from mine and my brother’s generation are doing it for the sake of credentialism (Giddens, et al., 2014). As Mead proposes, my sense of self was shaped and influenced into getting a degree by seeing all these people around me that have and were also pursuing a higher education (Giddens, et al., 2014). To me this creates an effect that is similar to peer pressure, as I feel like I need to get a graduate degree, or else I would be behind my cousins and my brother, and in a way, be a lesser person than they …show more content…
I have to say that I did not have any serious goals until last year. I have always been class conscious, so I had the belief system that, with my background, not having a higher education was not an option (Giddens, et al., 2014). However, before last year I only saw 2 reasons for why I was getting a diploma, the most obvious reason for me was for the label of “university graduate”, and the second reason was, spending 4 years to mature some more before starting to work in my father’s company. With the recent events related to terrorism however, I wanted to pursue an higher education in politics both to have a better understanding about what actually is the problem, and to help the process of making the world a better place. I want to challenge and break the social norms as to me, they are holding back a huge portion of people, just because of traits they have that they were born with, such as the color of their skin or their sex. I believe that studying politics is one of the most efficient way to accomplish these 2 goals of mine, I just hope that I won’t perpetuate the stereotype of politicians are not to be