The process of human socialization is actually the process in which human biological potential is stimulated in the social environment. The so-called social person refers to a person who masters the morality and culture of the society through socialized individuals, learns the moral norms and moral behavior of the society, forms an independent personality, generates self-awareness, and eventually grows into a socialized person. The formation of a social person depends on the social interaction between people, resulting in social interaction. To learn the basic knowledge and basic skills of society in a social situation, the development of an individual from a natural person to a social person needs to go through the process of socialization, otherwise the individual will not be able to adapt to human society. As the main way of information exchange in human society, mass communication has many social functions, which affects people's understanding of society and thus affects people's socialization process.
Ben: The Retrograde of Socialization
Father Ben's behavior in "Captain Marvel" is a game, rebellion and struggle that affects the socialization of mass media. Whether it is seclusion in the mountains or isolation, he leads the children to hunt, fight, climb, and dissect in the depths of the jungle, teaching survival skills by words and deeds. , or listening to classical music by the bonfire at night, learning musical instruments, explaining history, philosophy, medicine, social law, and open-ended discussions, all of which reflect his criticism and dissatisfaction with modern life, trying to build a pure and natural "ideal" country". When most parents teach their children how to adapt to society and accept socialization, he is a maverick and leads their children into the utopia he constructs based on his personal wishes.
Tracing the Origin of Behavior: A Discussion on Mass Communication and Human Socialization
The protagonist's decision to isolate from the world may be due to disgust with the inherent values and status quo of society, or may be out of distrust of mass communication in shaping children's character and cognition, or may be because of pure yearning for a new and unique natural life. . In my opinion, it is more inclined to distrust of mass communication, because mass communication is the most unavoidable and important influencing factor in the process of human socialization. The disgust of modern life is more common, but there is no strong behavioral driving force. McLuhan believes that the greatest effect of communication is that it affects our habit of understanding and thinking, changing people's conception of the world, a process of gradually forming their own worldview, which can be expressed as a real social construction. Mass media can connect various parts to adapt to the surrounding environment, and can pass on social culture from generation to generation. The medium reduces the individual's sense of social alienation and wandering by providing the individual with a society to identify with. In the movie, the father is isolated from most of the mass media, and the children live in a world with only family members and books. The singleness of the environment makes them unable to feel the outside world, and the family environment with a high sense of identity does not need to mention alienation. sense and a sense of wandering. And when they really begin to experience another way of life, these feelings will come in their face, resulting in a great sense of discomfort.
In human life, we will experience multiple stimuli and various possibilities in real life. As the characteristics of age, the development of socialization will change our existing cognition and thinking. manner, understanding, emotional experience, as well as social interests, social attitudes and values. Thus, life itself is a process of self-expression, a socialization process of continuous change and continuous development. It is commendable that the protagonist may be more inclusive in shaping the three views of children, and has strong self-expression ability, but the multi-stimulation in real life and the lack of possible experience make them unable to escape the limitation of cognition.
Invisibly, children seem to have their own unique cognition, but without a source of inspiration in social life, their thoughts may not have great significance, because there is a huge difference with the real society. They live in a world constructed by the values of their fathers and authors, constantly regurgitating knowledge and ideas in various ways, essentially far from real progress in thinking.
The mass media is open and non-coercive for personal socialization. Because of its open and divergent communication, recipients can freely choose information from different transmission channels and different information content. The children in the film do not have the right to choose, which virtually obliterates the influence of the mass media as a recreational function on socialization. At the same time, the mass media is intrusive and non-identical. Although it is not mandatory, it is controlled. The way, method and timing of dissemination are affected by many factors. The extensive setting of news “gatekeepers” is precisely to realize the social functions of the media, such as monitoring the social environment, collecting information on social norms and their functions, coordinating and understanding public will, supervising and controlling public opinion, and monitoring new members of society. social norms, etc. The information disseminated by the mass media is only a complex symbolic structure in form, the recipient is not yet determined, and the disseminated information has to compete with other ideas, knowledge and power. In addition, the quality of the recipients varies. Qi, so that it has different forms and effects in the process of spreading. In my opinion, the protagonist chooses to cut off all opportunities to affect the child due to the uncertainty of various factors, whether it is the value system behind the "gatekeeper" or the various roles of the media's social functions. . Therefore, we will see that the status of children at different stages has a high similarity.
Contradictions: The inevitable outcome of the return of utopianism to reality
Theory comes from practice, and the word "practice" is often connected with society. The protagonist wants the children to summarize their experience through their own life and rise to theory and form their own personalized system, but they ignore their theories. The basis is from the real society. Whether it is history, philosophy, medicine, or social law, they are all tools for studying people and society. The product of utopian thought that is isolated from the world and separated from society is not only unsuitable for society, but it cannot guarantee the simultaneous development of individuals and society, and neither can children Fundamentally understand its profound meaning.
In the end, in the game of identity and individuality in the process of socialization, the only thing that wins is the crowd. People always have delusions about the ultimate freedom, but in fact it is impossible, just like an injured daughter must rely on Only modern medicine can cure, and the social nature of people must have its meaning, because the social order is orderly. But individuality is also the spiritual support of everyone. As mentioned in the film: if you have no hope in your heart, then hope will cease to exist. If you have an instinct to follow freedom, then you have the opportunity to change the world. Possibilities for a better world.
—Noam Chomsky
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