Subjectification of Children through English Nursery Rhymes in Family as an Ideological Social Institution: Cultural Study

Subjectification of Children through English Nursery Rhymes in Family as an Ideological Social Institution: Cultural Study

From the earliest childhood the nursery rhymes have transmitted powerful messages to the child who hears it. They reflect the ideologies of the culture in which they are written. Children are the most impressible group of any society, in whom the process of subjectification and forming ideology is much easier. Nursery rhymes have a fundamental role in subjectification of children. This article is investigating English nursery rhymes in the light of cultural studies. According to the theories of cultural studies about ideology and subjectification, it is a personʹs response to his societyʹs ideology that makes what he is. Social institutions create subjects by producing ideologies. This process of subjectification and creating subjects takes place through the ideological means. Nursery rhymes are studied in this article as an ideological means used by the ideological social institutions in subjectification of children. The ideological social institutions aim at making children subjects through writing and reciting approved nursery rhymes for them.