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• Final: your Socio-Autobiography
Your final exam requires you to write your story — your socio-autobiography. SOCIO-AUTOBIOGRAPHY Guidelines
As noted in the course syllabus, this assignment is to help you write your final assignment, your socio-autobiography. The purpose of the socio-autobiography is to use the insights from sociology to better understand your life, particularly your own “story;” it’s a way of using the concepts of sociology to explore your personal narrative. It also gives you the opportunity to place your life under the sociological microscope and apply skills of sociological analysis. Sociologist, C. Wright Mills, emphasized the influence of society on the individual and argued that personal troubles are typically rooted in larger social forces that are public issues. Thus, in crafting your socio-autobiography, you have the opportunity to reflect on the construction of your self-identity. Only as you begin to understand how you have been socially created can you become fully empowered to act. Many of us go through life repeating patterns given to us by the faces in our mirror without realizing that we have the power to change those patterns in our own lives. When writing, make sure you address the micro and macro realms in your story, using at least sociological concepts from Units 1-5; use the following to guide your responses:
1. What social forces have had the most impact in your life? (Chapter 1)
2. If you identify with a particular ethnicity, have you experience what W.E.B. DuBois describes as double consciousness? Or if you have not considered yourself as ethnic, have you experienced a sense of being more than one self? (Chapter 1)
3. Which theoretical framework applies best when explaining your story? For example, does conflict theory best describe your life experiences or does functionalism? (Chapter 2)
4. How do you see yourself as a product and a producer of a particular culture? (Chapter 3)
5. Do your values, beliefs and norms reflect mainstream culture? (Chapter 3)
6. How did your socialization influence who you are today? (Chapter 4)
7. Describe your ascribed statuses and how they have or have not influenced your achieved statuses. (Chapter 5)
8. Apply the dramaturgical model to explain your socialization process (or any other event/experience), emphasizing front stage and back stage behaviors (Chapter 5)
9. Give an example of you engaging in deviant behavior, and note, what sanctions, if any, occurred as a result of your behavior. (Chapter 7) Discuss how your life chances have played out thus far in your life. Have your chances followed a certain path or have they been redirected? (Chapter 8)
10. Describe the social class you were born into, noting any social inequality and/or social mobility that took place. (Chapter 8)
11. What kinds of prejudice, stigma or stereotypes have you experienced or you have applied to others? Explain the outcome(s). (Chapter 9)
12. Regarding your gender, what messages were you given about your body and your appearance by particular individuals or groups? Did these messages influence your self-identity? (Chapter 10)
13. Describe which economic sector you and/or your family provided employment: primary, secondary, or tertiary. How did this type of work effect you, your family?(Chapter 11)
14. Discuss how debt (safe, stupid, and/or survival) has impacted your life. (Chapter 11)
15. How has your family background expanded or restricted your opportunities and life chances? (Chapter 12)
16. Discuss how your formal education and schooling experiences have contributed to your self-identity (Chapter 13)
17. Discuss the role of religion in your life, noting its impact on individual, family, and community. (Chapter 14) Have you or any of your family members migrated to another state based on pull or push factors? (Chapter 15)
18. What do you think will be the most pressing tipping point in your lifetime? How do you think you’ll be affected? (Chapter 16)
Remember, these questions are offered as a guide only; feel free to use different concepts from the chapters in all five Units. You can also weave concepts into your narrative as a way to focus on several events, special moments, or important relationships in your life that have impacted you in significant ways. Recall key themes, events or circumstances that have contributed to the construction of your identity. I’ve attached an example for you to use as a guide if you like.
As a suggestion, try to respond to each question which corresponds to each chapter in the text and the five units of this course. These guided questions will provide an outline to draft this final assignment/exam. Use any of the theoretical approaches to describe or explain your story. This is a reflective exercise that allows you step outside of yourself and employs sociological concepts to interpret your experiences and uses the concepts of the discipline to interpret your life in its social context. As noted before, in crafting your socio-autobiography you have the opportunity to reflect on the construction of your self-identity. Try to understand who you are in your social context using a sociological perspective. As you write your story, use sociological concepts—such as social class, reference group, conformity, norm, role, deviance, subculture, and any others that are helpful—to interpret your life experiences.
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