Names are an important part of a person's identity when it is a reflection of their own heritage. Tom Rosenberg discusses how his choice of changing his last name as a child and back to the original as an adult emulates a person's identity because names have a significant power. It has helped shaped our identity in the world and in many ways form us into who we are, but without them we will feel a sense of loss. Name, by definition is a word that is commonly used for identification. “Changing My Name after Sixty Years”, Tom Rosenberg described his childhood as he was growing up, he became ashamed of his name and his family’s religious background. As he grew older, began to understand his family’s roots and heritage. Name has a value , which provides a framework
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He was impacted by Agents of Socialization, which are social structures that provide the environment, experiences, that shapes the individual. Family is the primary agent they act as an interaction to status, religious values, and lifestyle. However, in Tom Rosenberg situation, when his parents landed on the Ellis Island, had their names changed by an immigration bureaucrat and his parents gave up their identity. Tom Rosenberg as a child saw how his parents easily give away their identity and he also was reflected by their actions by how they denied their heritage and did not teach their son to accept and be proud of his identity. Peers are a secondary agent and they provide the children with first egalitarian relationship and as they children age, peer influence increases while parental influence decreases. Tom Rosenberg said he felt hatred towards himself when neighborhood bullies torture him and he felt ashamed of his family’s ethnic background and he spent more time denying his culture rather than focusing on how others portray him as. He was influenced by his “classmates” and also denied to join Theta Chi, a fraternity which embodies friendship and would helped Rosenberg gain more
He was impacted by Agents of Socialization, which are social structures that provide the environment, experiences, that shapes the individual. Family is the primary agent they act as an interaction to status, religious values, and lifestyle. However, in Tom Rosenberg situation, when his parents landed on the Ellis Island, had their names changed by an immigration bureaucrat and his parents gave up their identity. Tom Rosenberg as a child saw how his parents easily give away their identity and he also was reflected by their actions by how they denied their heritage and did not teach their son to accept and be proud of his identity. Peers are a secondary agent and they provide the children with first egalitarian relationship and as they children age, peer influence increases while parental influence decreases. Tom Rosenberg said he felt hatred towards himself when neighborhood bullies torture him and he felt ashamed of his family’s ethnic background and he spent more time denying his culture rather than focusing on how others portray him as. He was influenced by his “classmates” and also denied to join Theta Chi, a fraternity which embodies friendship and would helped Rosenberg gain more