Socialization in Disney Movies: Review

    We spent this week on the socializing messages in the Disney children's movies. There are many aspects of this project that I enjoyed, but there are certain parts of it that I thought were somewhat irritating.
    BeforeI make any other points, I must say that this project was enjoyable. It allowed me to take the information from the textbook and apply it to my life and childhood. I think it was enjoyable for the entire class because the Disney movies were such a integral part of all of our childhoods. Leading up to this project we several discussions/debates in class about whether the media still played a huge role in socialization today. Well, I think in this project we answered that. Now it makes sense why all the little girls in kindergarten wanted to be a princess. Speaking of questions, there were a few of them lingering during this project.
     However, there are certain aspects of the project that were vague that ended up confusing most of the class. For instance, were we supposed to talk about socialization of gender, in children, in society, or all of the above? I think most people thought it was supposed to be about gender. Another questionthat I had is if we had to talk about actual theories we spoke about in class like Charles Horton Cooley's "looking glass self". The final issue, and without a doubt the biggest was the timing. How long is too long? The besty  way to organize and fix these issues would be to create a clear rubric. Assign certain groups certain movies or certain aspects of socialization. Tell them what' expected as far as content goes; do you need to mention the theories we pointed out in class? Finally, create a time limit, so it doesn't take up four days of class time.