I truly believe that we as people build our world around the concept of communication.
When referring to the idea of the social constructionist perspective what helps me understand this is through the ideals of my family. When I was younger I was taught to look at the world through my parents views as well as other family members. By doing so this showed me that my culture definitely was not the same as the next persons. We had definite traditions in our culture that steered the directions of my thoughts. The ideas we talked about in my family were mostly religious based, which was the Catholic Tradition, and most of our conversations were very deep in morals and the way I was to uphold my self as a woman. The conversations that I had amongst my parents as well as my family members truly did help me. They made me into a strong woman that has much respect for herself. I think that all the conversations that we had helped me to make good judgment calls. I am happy to say that by doing this, it helped me very much. One thing that I however did not agree with was the way my family spoke of a woman educating herself. They use to tell me that a womans role was to stay home and take care of the family and home. When I told them that I wanted to persue my education beyond High School they werent so thrilled. I however am proud of myself for not listening to the critisism because otherwise I would not be where I am today.
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Your use of your family as the "tools" within your culture to create the collective representation of reality is interesting. I can see how the cultural icons of religion and family roles could have created a reality that wasn't familiar to your community around you. And yet I believe that your "tools" thrived in their culture and allowed you to communicate with others in your circle of family and friends. It's obvious that the relationships and communications you were having within the unit made you more aware of who you wanted to be as a person. It's as if you broke out of this collective representation and elevated yourself to another. More importantly, your education with communication has made you look past this cultural community and brought you to another collective representation.
I think that family really shapes the way that we interpret the world and our surroundings. Religion and culture are a way for us to unify with people around us and look at issues from a certain perspective. Often we find that we have common morals, goals, and collective ideas as those we share common beliefs with. Tradition has a way of shaping us as people and pointing us in certain directions. Not always is each tradition the best route for each individual. But at least it gives us a starting point to see where we may fit in. Traditions were meant to evolve over time. It looks as if you may have started a new tradition within your family construct.
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