Societal Roles Of Amish People

Through the course of our lives we are constantly shaped and defined by the world around us and those we choose to interact with. This careful nurturing and preening of each individuals character helps to organize people into different groups and prepares them for the societal roles that they will be charged with when they get older and it will help them to navigate the constantly changing courses of our world and the future that has yet to be determined. During the adolescence years, as a collective group, people are generally thought to be at their most influential stage of life and are surrounded by numerous people and factors that can help shape their minds and character in a certain way, these people and factors are considered to be agents

They were fearful that the larger schools would break up the sense of community they strived so hard to create and risk introducing undesirable characters into their children’s lives at such an impressionable age. With the centralization of the schools also came the more modern sense of a career teacher, no more were the days of the teacher being someone local to the community who was teaching as a service to the community until they became married and moved on to a more productive job. The new teacher was one who went to acquire even more schooling before teaching the students entrusted to them while trying to engage them in the academic world and foster their learning so they could go out into the world and make a difference through acquiring a higher education. For the Amish who felt that the only education a person needs to be a productive member of society is eight years and anything beyond that was worldly knowledge that as a servant of God no person had a right to possess it, this was a threat to their teachings and a possible avenue for the children to follow along and fall off the path of righteousness they so desperately try to follow. During the 1930s and 1940s the Amish parents did not have many difficulties in keeping the one room school houses and pulling their kids out of school after the eighth grade since America was in the middle of the Great Depression and World War Two so the general population was not as focused on what the family down the road was doing in terms of their kids education. After the Second World War was over, the local governments began to crack down on the education laws that had been so loosely enforced until then (Brock 12