How might a sociologist introduce you?
How have social influences shaped you?
What were the social forces that constructed your life or lifestyle?
How have you negotiated the crisscrossing pressures of autonomy and conformity?
Who are you in the social context and what does it mean to understand your life using the "sociological imagination," or utilizing a sociological perspective?
What sociological concepts would be most helpful in understanding and interpreting your life experiences, whether class, or reference group, conformity, agents of socialization, gender socialization, racial socialization, norms, roles, significant others, total institutions (particularly if you were in the military), achieved status, ascribed status, deviance, subculture, culture, culture shock, ethnocentrism, folkways, mores, peer groups, and any others described in the textbook chapters, to interpret your life experiences?
What events, moments, or relationships in your life have impacted you significantly?
In a narrated PowerPoint, compare and contrast your sociological observations about yourself that you shared in your Week 3 assignment with your sociological observations of the person you interview. Address the following 2 important sections:
Explore the interconnections between the life story of a person you interview and the larger social structure or culture.
Compare and contrast the sociological themes and concepts related to your own personal story with the sociological themes and concepts related to the story of the person you interviewed. Apply the sociological imagination in the analysis.
Include the following in your analysis:
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