INTRODUCTION Children are taught how to express their emotions through emotional socialization. I chose emotional socialization because I find it fascinating to read about the many ways that children learn how to act and feel through socialization. Emotional socialization is sociologically interesting because it is a major part in the overall socialization process of people. When children learn how to express and understand their feelings, they also are learning different feeling rules, social norms, and other socially constructed aspects of life. Feeling rules are the social rules that describe how people should feel and when (Hochschild 2012). Those around young children often do emotion work in order to teach children the correct way to respond to different situations emotionally.
Emotion work is work done to manage one’s emotions in order display the correct emotions that “produces the proper state of mind in others” (Hochschild 2012:7). Caregivers at daycare centers do emotional labor because they are being paid to watch children and manage their emotions. Parents at home do emotion work. Both caregivers and parents do deep acting and surface acting to help aid emotional socialization. Emotional …show more content…
At day care, caregivers aid emotional socialization by demonstrating different emotions and reacting to the children’s emotions in different ways. One factor that leads to the emotional socialization is caregivers denying the legitimacy of children’s emotions (Leavitt and Power 1989). The caregivers often deny that the children have legitimate feelings which leads to the children learning how to show their emotions differently. Caregivers also teach children how to appropriately express their feelings, and reinforced positive expressions of their emotions (Pollak and Thoits 1989); however, negative emotion was recognized by caregivers more often than positive emotion (Leavitt and Power
Emotion work is work done to manage one’s emotions in order display the correct emotions that “produces the proper state of mind in others” (Hochschild 2012:7). Caregivers at daycare centers do emotional labor because they are being paid to watch children and manage their emotions. Parents at home do emotion work. Both caregivers and parents do deep acting and surface acting to help aid emotional socialization. Emotional …show more content…
At day care, caregivers aid emotional socialization by demonstrating different emotions and reacting to the children’s emotions in different ways. One factor that leads to the emotional socialization is caregivers denying the legitimacy of children’s emotions (Leavitt and Power 1989). The caregivers often deny that the children have legitimate feelings which leads to the children learning how to show their emotions differently. Caregivers also teach children how to appropriately express their feelings, and reinforced positive expressions of their emotions (Pollak and Thoits 1989); however, negative emotion was recognized by caregivers more often than positive emotion (Leavitt and Power