Monday, October 27, 2008

Article 6: Process of Socialization-Rite of Passage

Each societies have the rite of passage to achieve adulthood or major life stage. For example, in Africa and Australia, they do circumsion for male and female like the Islamic teach. Also in North America, they publicly announcement when their daughter’s first menses. Besides that, a culture in some Australian Aborigine societies that initiated was expected to repeatedly hit his penis with a heavy rock until it was bruised and bloody. That cultured are intend to be painful but this is only culture to process socialization.(1081544)

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