Comparative Paper on Differences in the Acquisition of Sociologically Significant Social Identities
How do differences in TWO individuals’ experiences with the social world of different “others,” lead
them to develop different, sociologically significant understandings of themselves?
The paper should blend observations and reflections about the experiences of two individuals with
specific, sociologically significant features of their identities. Discuss these experiences in relation
to scholarly discussions about the ways identities are acquired – learned, adapted to, or
assimilated to the self – and then used in making consequential social bonds.
we ask you to consider ways that individuals are subject to social influence in the construction of
their identities, and in the expression or use of identity in action.
Your research should examine similarities and differences in the development of that identity with
the way another person acquired his or her different version of an identity in the same category of
identity.
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