How name calling affects the individual.

Words can change an individual. What people say about a person can change their behaviour and their identity. Words can change a person’s thoughts about themselves all because of society tells them they are. And what society says we are, most of us believe it.

When we do something wrong, society’s way to control us is usually with gossip. When we continue to do something wrong, they take it as a sign of rebellion from the norms that we have. So they talk about our action and this usually leads us to identify with it. Name calling is nothing new to society, it is our way of control and to make people conform. Here are some examples in society:

1. When a student would often get into fight in school, people would label him/her as a troublemaker. Soon enough that sticks with them and they accept it; so they continue this deviant behaviour because that’s how society labeled them, a troublemaker.
2. A person who committed a crime would often be looked at by society as criminals for the rest of their lives. This becomes their stigma.

Howard Becker’s Labelling theory states that people come to identify and behave in ways that reflect how others label them. This theory posits that how people react to an action can result in deviance or conformity.

How society views us can affect our identity, according to Charles Cooley self is a social product. Interactions shape personality or self-concept from the time of birth to the time they become older. In short, we are shaped by society’s views of us. His three elements to the Looking-glass self theory all say that how we think we appear to others, how they judge us, and our feelings to their judgement all shape our development. Sometimes the label given would become what their known for- their master status. A master status carries the most weight in our interactions with others, so if our master status is something negative like say a criminal, this would greatly affect judgements around the person. According to developmental psychology, Language is one of the many ways through which culture affects development. We know from research on adults that languages forge how people think and reason. Moreover, the content and focus of what people talk about in their conversations also vary across cultures. 

Every society has norms that people ought to follow, not following can lead to being stigmatised. We look for approval from others because that is rewarding, society puts us in a better light. So we follow cultural norms in order to be approved, it influences how we act around others.
Words can change an individual. Sometimes how society views us is enough to change our personality. We often forget the impact of our words and we forget that there are consequences to every action. Labeling negatively affects people from the inside and soon manifests outside, let us never forget that.

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The university brings together people from all over the country, not just from the city. HUMSS 11 E is no exception; our block consists of a variety of people. With different personalities, you’d expect differences; yes there are but not so much that it would affect the whole class. Regardless of the existing diversities, it has proved to be not a hindrance in uniting the class. A manifestation of such is the University of San Carlos Apotheosis. It was not easy managing a whole class of different personalities that have just met. It takes sweat, tears and determination to make different pieces of the puzzle work together to form a beautiful picture. That day was nerve wrecking for the whole class because we knew that we lacked the time and practice, but we had faith. In the end, the whole ordeal ended successfully whilst HUMSS 11 E emerged as champions of the event.

We are a diverse university. We meet different people from all over the country. It is an exciting experience because we are different yet somehow the same. The people we meet become our new pack maybe a new family. As the school year ends, we not only leave wiser and stronger, we leave with new friends. 10 months of school, everyone has found a new set of friends. These people we eat lunch with, we work on assignments with, we team up for projects with, and they are the people we consider our people. Through the ups and downs of the year, bonds form over the stress and laughter we share. Every person we meet will be another piece in the puzzle of our lives, something needed to complete a whole. High school is always said to be the best part of life in school and I am sure that friends are 99% of the reason for it.