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ATTACHMENT PREVIEW Download attachmentSocioautobiography Assignment GuidelinesThe purpose of this assignment is to give you the opportunity to apply the sociologicalimagination to your everyday life: To make connections between your everyday life and thebroad sociocultural structures within which you live. In this assignment, you will referenceappropriate Terminal Course Objectives (TCOs) that relate to your socioautobiography. Youcan Fnd the TCOs in this course listed in the Syllabus and in the weekly objectives. Thisassignment can be related to any and all of the TCOs.The socioautobiography is a re±ective paper that allows you the opportunity to explore theinterconnections between biography (a slice of your life), the social structure, and culture. Inpreparation for this paper, please read this document, Socioautobiography AssignmentGuideline. At the end of the paragraph where a concept is used, indicate which TCOs yoursociological concept refers. This should be done using parenthetical citation. An example ofhow to do this is provided below.The Fnal paper will be due at the end of Week 5. It should be three-to-four pages in lengthand may be in any format you choose. ²eel free to get creative. You may choose to do astandard APA style paper or you can do your socioautobiography as a news story, moviereview of your life, letter home to family, obituary, poem, lyrics, dialogue, old time radioprogram, or Shakespearean play, whatever format you choose. Be sure to identify yourformat, double-space your paper, and correctly use a minimum of six sociological conceptscovered in the weekly readings or lecture.Your six concepts should be in boldface andunderlined. Consider the following example.As I think about my experience growing up, I realized that I was at an advantage comparedwith some of the other students. I came from amiddle-class family. In my familygenderdidn’t matter, boys and girls were raised with the same expectation that they would begoing oF to college right after high school. As such, writing and speaking properly wasconsidered a high priority. (TCO 3 and TCO 6).Note how, in this mini-socioautobiography, there are references to social class and gender.Below are guidelines to follow as you work on your socioautobiography assignment.Papers should contain 3-to 4-pages of text, double-spaced (this does not include thetitle page).Refer to and properly use at least six sociological concepts covered in the lectures ortextbook reading.Underline and boldface these concepts.Connect your concepts to the TCOs. Indicate the TCOs covered in parentheses, asdemonstrated in the assignment instructions.Cite the textbook and/or lecture for the concepts and the Syllabus or courseobjectives for the TCOs in addition to any outside source material used both in bodyand on your reference page.Grading:ComponentPointsSubmission refers to at least six sociological concepts covered in the lectures ortextbook reading and uses them correctly.60Submission underlineseach concept and puts them inboldfaceand relates them60
View the AnswerSubmission meets minimum length requirement of three-to-four pages of text notincluding title page or reference page.10Submission is well-written and well-organized and free from mechanical errors(errors in spelling, punctuation, word choice, and grammar).10Submission properly referenced course lecture and/or text for the sociologicalconcepts and the Syllabus and/or course objectives for the TCOs in the body ofthe paper and on a reference page.10Total150You might Fnd the following excerpt on a socioautobiography helpful as you are thinkingabout what a socioautobiography is. It is taken directly from: Kanagy, C. L., & Kraybill, D. B.,(1999). The Riddles of Human Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine ±orge Press. (pp. 287–289).Socioautobiography“The purpose of the socioautobiography is to use the insights from sociology to betterunderstand your own story; it is a way of using the concepts of sociology to explore ourpersonal riddle. But the socioautobiography is not a diary or a point-by-point account of yourlife since infancy. It is rather a re²ective exercise in which you step outside of yourself andemploy sociological concepts to interpret your experiences . . . it uses the concepts of thediscipline to interpret our life in its social context.” (p. 287)“The socioautobiography follows the tradition of C. Wright Mills, a sociologist whoemphasized the in²uence of society on the individual. He argued that personal troubles aretypically rooted in larger social forces—that is public issues.” (p. 287)The socioautobiography invites you to consider, in the tradition of C. Wright Mills, how socialin²uences have shaped you. As you contemplate your socioautobiography, you might ask,what were the social forces that constructed the riddle of my life? How did I negotiate thecrisscrossing pressures of autonomy and conformity? The connection between the micro andmacro realms is an important area to address in your socioautobiography.The socioautobiography also gives you the opportunity to place your life under thesociological microscope and apply the skills of sociological analysis. Try to understand whoyou are in your social context using a sociological perspective. As you write your story, usesociological concepts—such as social class, reference group, conformity, norm, role,deviance, subculture, and any others that are helpful—to interpret your life experiences.You may want to focus on several events, special moments, or important relationships inyour life that have impacted you in signiFcant ways. Recall key themes, events, orcircumstances that have contributed to the construction of your identity. You may want todiscuss the importance of some of the following in²uences: signiFcant others, familystructure, residence (urban, suburban, rural), ethnicity, religion, social status, groupmemberships, economic status, leisure, work, death, and crisis. Regardless of which themesyou discuss, be sure to interpret them with some of the sociological concepts that have beenintroduced throughout the book.Questions like the following may be appropriate: How have social forces—groups, largersocial trends, and cultural values—molded my behavior and world view? In what sense am Iboth a produce and producers of culture? How has my family background expanded or
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