SOC 2 —Assignment #1 Professor King Assignment #1: Developing a Sociological Imagination [25 points] DUE: Week 4 (at the beginning of class) OBJECTIVE: The aim of this assignment is to give you an opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of the course material as well as your ability to critically analyze issues and apply concepts. In this assignment you are asked to write about what C.W. Mills calls the intersection of biography and history. Specifically, you’re asked to write about the ways a social structure has had an impact in your own lives and to consider the broader social impact of those structures. INSTRUCTIONS: To understand peoples’ behavior, sociologists look at their social location in society. For this assignment, I am asking you to identify the corners in life that you occupy (the structures that shape you) by describing your jobs, class, income, religion, education, gender, age, and race-ethnicity. Describe and explain how two of these elements influence your self- concept, behavior, and life chances. In your explanation, be sure to utilize of one of the major theoretical perspectives (symbolic interactionist, structural functionalist, conflict) to discuss what sociologists describe as seeing the personal in the broader social context. Then select the 2 elements you chose and change them (for example, your ethnicity from Japanese American to Mexican) and describe what differences might exist in your: self concept, behavior and life chances if you occupied these social locations instead. In your explanation be sure to identify ‘how you know this’; are you using common sense, past experiences, stereotypes, research, etc? Explain. REQUIREMENTS: This paper will include: 1) A detailed and organized description of the way you have been “socially constructed”. 2) The application of one of the major theoretical perspectives covered in Chapter 1. FORMAT: • This assignment must be a minimum of 2-3 pages in length (not including title page). • You must have a title page. • You must use 12 point, Times New Roman or Calibri font (No exceptions) • 1” margins all around • Typed, double spaced, AND stapled or paper clipped.

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Assignment #1: Developing a Sociological Imagination [25 points] DUE: Week 4 (at the beginning of class) OBJECTIVE: The aim of this assignment is to give you an opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of the course material as well as your ability to critically analyze issues and apply concepts. In this assignment you are asked to write about what C.W. Mills calls the intersection of biography and history. Specifically, you’re asked to write about the ways a social structure has had an impact in your own lives and to consider the broader social impact of those structures. INSTRUCTIONS: To understand peoples’ behavior, sociologists look at their social location in society. For this assignment, I am asking you to identify the corners in life that you occupy (the structures that shape you) by describing your jobs, class, income, religion, education, gender, age, and race-ethnicity. Describe and explain how two of these elements influence your self-concept, behavior, and life chances. In your explanation, be sure to utilize of one of the major theoretical perspectives (symbolic interactionist, structural functionalist, conflict) to discuss what sociologists describe as seeing the personal in the broader social context. Then select the 2 elements you chose and change them (for example, your ethnicity from Japanese American to Mexican) and describe what differences might exist in your: self concept, behavior and life chances if you occupied these social locations instead. In your explanation be sure to identify ‘how you know this’; are you using common sense, past experiences, stereotypes, research, etc? Explain. REQUIREMENTS: This paper will include: 1) A detailed and organized description of the way you have been “socially constructed”. 2) The application of one of the major theoretical perspectives covered in Chapter 1. FORMAT: • This assignment must be a minimum of 2-3 pages in length (not including title page). • You must have a title page. • You must use 12 point, Times New Roman or Calibri font (No exceptions) • 1” margins all around • Typed, double spaced, AND stapled or paper clipped.