As I was looking back through my day book to see what I should blog about I found a piece that interested me. A couple weeks ago we were told to go pick a section of a much larger piece by Gee, I choose Genres of Participation because it had an intriguing title. He classified participation into different categories the two main ones were friendship-driven and interest driven. Interest driven helps to describe group's like the geeks, musicians, and the jocks. While friendship driven is more what youth do with their friends. Which one do think is more prevalent in today's youth? If you guessed friendship driven then you were right because a lot of the activities that youth do are with each other and because of each other. Would you want to go to some party without your friends? Wouldn't you be more likely to try something with a friend? I wonder as we as youth transition into a more independent lifestyle and professional do we become more interest driven or friendship driven. I argue that for the career oriented person it is defiantly more interest driven, as you start to join clubs with the same interest and making connections within that given interest. I am not saying that friendship driven is still not heavily prevalent , but that it is more balanced out by interest driven than before in one's youth.
Monday, February 4, 2013
Genres of Participation
As I was looking back through my day book to see what I should blog about I found a piece that interested me. A couple weeks ago we were told to go pick a section of a much larger piece by Gee, I choose Genres of Participation because it had an intriguing title. He classified participation into different categories the two main ones were friendship-driven and interest driven. Interest driven helps to describe group's like the geeks, musicians, and the jocks. While friendship driven is more what youth do with their friends. Which one do think is more prevalent in today's youth? If you guessed friendship driven then you were right because a lot of the activities that youth do are with each other and because of each other. Would you want to go to some party without your friends? Wouldn't you be more likely to try something with a friend? I wonder as we as youth transition into a more independent lifestyle and professional do we become more interest driven or friendship driven. I argue that for the career oriented person it is defiantly more interest driven, as you start to join clubs with the same interest and making connections within that given interest. I am not saying that friendship driven is still not heavily prevalent , but that it is more balanced out by interest driven than before in one's youth.
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I think friendship driven participation is more prevalent in today's youth simply because kids are influenced much easier in today's society. When I hear friendship driven participation, I think of peer pressure and we all know a lot of that happens in today's youth.
ReplyDeleteVery good point. I have another good example of friend-driven activities: taking the same classes as your friends just to be together. I tried that out this semester and it is honestly a great way to learn because we all get together and work on our assignments and help each other out.
ReplyDeleteWhat I think is neat about this, is that there is or can be a point when both of those genres of participation converge. You meet friends and you find your interests, but there is going to be a time when your interests lead you to your friends or vice-versa.
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