Everyone has a different background, and backgrounds are depending on skin color, religion, family wealth… etc. Identities have fallen into different categories; however, it does not matter that people’s identities are, eventually, people will change because of the surrounding environment, which is the institutionalized practices. Institutionalized practices are taking places like schools, workplaces, basically the place where people spend the most time besides their homes. Places like that would shape individual’s identity because it ranks people from class to class, and automatically people will fit into different classes. In Project Classroom Makeover, the author Cathy Davidson believes that collective learning will shape a person’s identity,
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Students who attend Harvard or Princeton and now are working on Wall Street are considering the elite and successful people. However, their institutional practices are places like Ivy League Universities and Wall Street, which leads them to become over-popularized the idea of “me”. As a result, the elite person would believe they are special and they are capable of anything. In An Army of One: Me, the author Jean Twenge, compares situations under the idea of ‘self-esteem” and the society is over-popularized the idea of “me”. This social problem causes the unbalanced understanding of normal tasks and over trended to individualism and self-centered. Even though people would gain confidence under this circumstance; however, the appearance of narcissism also leads people into the negative side of reality. People’s identities are changing because of various situations, and in nowadays, people have divided into different social classes based on their performance such as wealthiness and …show more content…
There are plenty of opportunities that people are facing during their lifetimes. For example, the standard tests such as SAT and ACT and the job interviews are two opportunities that would lead a person to have a totally different future than the other. The student who has a higher SAT scores will have a different future compares to a student who has a lower SAT scores. It is not absolute that student who has higher SAT scores would definitely success in the future, or the lower SAT score one would definitely become a failure. However, it is possible that student who has a higher SAT scores will have more opportunities than student who has lower SAT scores. Because the society still believes that “the correlation between top GPA and test scores from top schools and performance in the organization, and we know you will success” (Ho 178). The society defines a student’s successfulness through the standardized test mostly; however, this is also rising a social issue that for students who have learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders. Not all students are strong in academic, some of students are extremely weak at academic, but strong at other field, such as performing and drawing. There is a girl who specialized in art and she comes“from the class failure to the class artist” (Davidson 62). The society cannot deny one person just because of their academic performance, and
Students who attend Harvard or Princeton and now are working on Wall Street are considering the elite and successful people. However, their institutional practices are places like Ivy League Universities and Wall Street, which leads them to become over-popularized the idea of “me”. As a result, the elite person would believe they are special and they are capable of anything. In An Army of One: Me, the author Jean Twenge, compares situations under the idea of ‘self-esteem” and the society is over-popularized the idea of “me”. This social problem causes the unbalanced understanding of normal tasks and over trended to individualism and self-centered. Even though people would gain confidence under this circumstance; however, the appearance of narcissism also leads people into the negative side of reality. People’s identities are changing because of various situations, and in nowadays, people have divided into different social classes based on their performance such as wealthiness and …show more content…
There are plenty of opportunities that people are facing during their lifetimes. For example, the standard tests such as SAT and ACT and the job interviews are two opportunities that would lead a person to have a totally different future than the other. The student who has a higher SAT scores will have a different future compares to a student who has a lower SAT scores. It is not absolute that student who has higher SAT scores would definitely success in the future, or the lower SAT score one would definitely become a failure. However, it is possible that student who has a higher SAT scores will have more opportunities than student who has lower SAT scores. Because the society still believes that “the correlation between top GPA and test scores from top schools and performance in the organization, and we know you will success” (Ho 178). The society defines a student’s successfulness through the standardized test mostly; however, this is also rising a social issue that for students who have learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders. Not all students are strong in academic, some of students are extremely weak at academic, but strong at other field, such as performing and drawing. There is a girl who specialized in art and she comes“from the class failure to the class artist” (Davidson 62). The society cannot deny one person just because of their academic performance, and