Sociological Analysis: A Child Called It

Sociology is the study of development of human society and its social problems. In a perspective of a sociologists they look for obvious social patterns in the behavior of individuals and how they relate to a group and how the group and social structures affect even a single individuals perception and behavior. Human behavior is usually patterned, and repetitive. Our social world had guided our actions and life choices as individuals throughout life. People act in the context of the group they belong, and that group will influence their human behavior to change them to fit the group. This is in the sense of who has power over others, who controls what, and who does not have it. Sociologist also examine how the social factors determine the …show more content…
At first, David did live a healthy and normal life with his parents and brothers. His mother, however, unexpectedly transformed into a monster and started to become an alcoholic, venting her anger on her own helpless child David. He was submerged in freezing cold water, slept in the basement under the stairs, forced to eat his own vomit, stabbed, starved, and forced to sit on a burning stove . Those were just a few of the torturous and cruel games that his mother used to play and treat him. It all started at his age of two and went on till he was twelve. She treated him not like her son, but like an "it". Throughout Davids childhood life he suffered both mental and physical abuse. In order to survive from all his mother's sick and torturous games, David used all of his willpower and inner strength and began to emerge throughout his childhood experience. The main points that will be discussed are diversity, symbolic interaction theory, normalizing abuse, and the power and …show more content…
Davids father was a firefighter, and his mother was a homemaker but both parents were alcoholics. They lived in a "good" neighborhood in a modest home. Until the abuse began, Davids life with his parents and brothers was normal and good. The two areas of diversity I recognized was economic status and disability. Because of Davids ragged clothing, unkept appearance and poor hygiene, he was an outcast at school. Even though his parents were financially capable of providing simple things for him, his mother withheld from him food, proper clothing and other basic material necessities of life that were needed especially at his age. David took food from other children's lunches at school in order to survive. His schoolmates were aware of this, and it served to set him further apart from them and made him a loner and outcast in school. David was not treated like a regular boy which changed his mentality in