My Cognitive Development From A Sociological Perspective

Since I was far too young to remember any bit of my cognitive development during the seismometer stage of my life we can begin with the preoperational stage. I was raised in a nuclear family with both of my parents, an older brother, and a younger sister. At this point in my life, my parents started to teach me society 's values and norms.As well as learning traditions in America, I was raised in a multicultural family in which my parents taught me traditions from their other cultures. My mother was the first generation in her family to be born in America, but she was still raised in a very strict, neat German family and passed some of her cultural values onto my siblings and me. My father was raised in a Mexican household. As a result, he …show more content…
Social control and sanctions did not matter to me, society 's attempts to regulate my thoughts and behaviors didn 't work. As a teenager I went through many phases while trying to figure out my self-identity and had many stereotypes given to me, according to Howard Becker 's theory on labeling people who are stereotyped as deviant may actually become deviant. (Placeholder1) I had started off as a nerd, due to my lack of socialization then started turning towards counterculture, and largely rejecting our cultures values and norms. I became what some people consider to be "emo". And then as I entered high school the peer group that I started interacting with were a part of a deviant subculture we were what people considered "potheads" or whatever you want to call it, this is when I started smoking every day, stopped eating meat, and started hating everything that had to do with the government. My deviance eventually crossed the line into crime and I started doing other things other than doing drugs to break the law as well, and eventually started getting in trouble with the police. I believe the reason that I kept involving in more criminal and deviant behavior is because of differential association, even though I kept getting in trouble I continued to associate with people who were also in trouble with the law and doing things worse off than I was which influenced me to keep engaging in deviant behavior. When I was in this rebellious part of my life a majority of my relationships were similar to the social exchange theory, they were just based off of rewards I would receive from others such as a place to