Posted: March 20th, 2017

Topic: Final Paper: Sociology Autobiography

Sociology
Topic: Final Paper: Sociology Autobiography
Paper details:

You will write a sociological autobiography. Not just any autobiography but your sociological autobiography. That is, tell your life story, where you came from, how you got where you are, etc. using sociology as your guide. So this should be incredibly full of correctly used sociological terms (not regurgitation of lecture definitions). Use your sociological imagination!

This should include ALL of the following (points will be deducted for each one left out):

social class, how has your social class privileged you? How hasn’t it?
gender, how has your gender privileged you? How hasn’t it?
race/ethnicity, how has your race/ethnicity privileged you? How hasn’t it?
religion, how has your religion (or absence of it) privileged you? How hasn’t it?
place of birth, how has your place of birth privileged you? How hasn’t it?
sexual orientation, how has your sexuality privileged you? How hasn’t it? This applies to EVERYONE.
technology
Anything else sociological you deem relevant to who you are and where you are in life should also be included.

How did ALL of the above make you who you are? That is, how did the social forces that exist outside of you the individual influences your life experiences and life chances? The above are SOCIAL variables, not simply individual variables. I am NOT concerned with individual explanations for these. They should be sociological! This is not an autobiography, it is a sociological analysis of a particular person who is situated in a time and place with a culture and history. Be sure to make connections to your life lived so far and project into the future given the insights you’ve learned through studying sociology.

Be sure to ask yourself what effect does what you’re saying have on your life chances. Relevant statistics are useful here. As much as we would like to think we are unique and immune to the odds, we are heavily influenced by the social forces we are immersed in and it would be foolish to not account for their impact on our lives.

A caveat: This is first and foremost a sociological autobiography. How do these sociological variables contribute to who you are today? Every variable listed has had a profound impact on who you are today.

Remember Mill’s point about the sociological imagination being a method to understand the individual in terms of their broader social context; history plus biography.

If you turn in something that you could have written without having taken this course, then you have not done the assignment correctly and your grade will reflect! If you read the above and don’t understand ask for clarification in class.

Assignment formatting: Points may be deducted for missing any of the following:

Include page numbers
Bold key concepts/terms and USE THEM CORRECTLY, you must have at minimum
20 key terms

Use proper grammar, punctuation and spell checking (this is crucial – make it readable!)
If you use words other than your own, properly CITE them in text and in the works cited page. Use APA format for this (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/583/01/)
Do all parts of the assignment
Distinguish one section from another with subtitles (underlined)
Carefully proofread and edit your final paper
Use times new rombptan 12-point font double spaced

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