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Golden Age Approaches

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As the turn of the golden age approaches, the human race will continue to develop advanced technology and modern ways of thinking. I don’t think nothing is further satisfying than to share a visual glance back in time. To observe what was considered advanced around those times. The objects from a time capsule represent pieces of someone’s life that have been collected together to reveal the final product. I have been chosen to contribute to a time capsule that would be locked away for 100 years; three items I would choose are, a blueprint of my house, a picture of me in my quincenera dress and an American flag. These items can serve as a visual and material presentation of what matters the greatest to me today. To begin with, the first …show more content…

The reason I included this picture to be in the capsule was to show how meaningful culture and tradition is. Culture is defined as the totality of learning socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior. To me having a quincenera is a norm; norms are the conceptions of appropriate and expected behavior that are held by utmost members of the society. Nothing is superior than celebrating your culture, and to me having quincenera was a big part of my Mexican culture. I want the future society to know that continuing your culture is an amazing achievement. Not only that but, maybe to encourage our society from 100 years from now to continue following tradition considering that is what composes us our self. Self is a distinct identity that sets us apart from others. I want the society to view this picture and identify how in 2015 celebrating an event, had an extensive meaning and people should continue to follow their traditions. I want to generate our society from 100 years from now understand that, culture should never be changed and should live on. This item is used in the process of socialization by the reason that, during socialization, we learn the language of the culture we are born into as well as the roles we are to play in …show more content…

Material culture is the possessions we prepare to reflect our beliefs about the world; the items around us affect the way that we understand the world. Material culture is shown in view of, they show the relationship between my items and me. The theoretical perspective, I choose that can explain my choice of items is, interactionist perspective. Interactionist perspective focuses on the concrete details of what goes on among individuals in everyday life. I choose this perspective owing to, it shows how we use and interpret symbols to communicate with each other and to maintain impressions. Also, all the items I choose create a sense of self, which is also related to interactionist perspective. I gave meaning to these items to and how they’re essential to my social

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