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Paper Assignment: Brief Summary


Fall 2022

Identify a specific experience in your life that has significantly shaped you as a
person. Now explain how social class influenced this experience. Then explain how
race/ethnicity or sex/gender (or both) influenced this experience. How might you
compare and contrast your experiences to someone with a different sex or gender
identity or a different racial or ethnic background, social class than you have?

Your essay should be about 3-4 pages in length (double spaced, 12 point font) with a
reference page at the end.

When you show how social class (race/ethnicity or gender/sex or both) influences you
(or someone who would share your similiar sociological profile) - this is when you would
need to use academic sources (journals, articles, etc.) to build/support your argument.

Example:
One way to start this off might be to describe yourself within a sociological context, or to
look at some event or element of your life that you feel influences you more than others.
You could also look at what is expected of you by your family or society if you’re the
youngest male or the oldest female in the family.

My sociological profile (and not a bad introduction):

I am the only son of a moderately sized, under educated, religiously


conservative family who married very early. Having my educational and
economic options limited by the small, rural town where I was raised not only
impacted my own social development but others as well. Based upon this model,
I predict that an individual sharing these social forces would marry early, have
minimal education, a moderately-sized family and remain within the small, rural
community in which they were raised.
The forces working within this profile would perpetuate the cycle whereby
social change is not embraced on an educational, economic or ethical level.
However, I feel that social class / education, as a social force, has more of an
impact upon the outcome of the individual, more so than setting, family dynamics
or ethical considerations. Specifically, I see the educational attainment of the
individual’s parents being more of an impactful force in determining their future
outcome.
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So I start out with who I am within a sociological setting. I predict that anyone who
shares this profile would probably have limited educational and life choices due to being
raised by an undereducated, religiously conservative family within a rural community.
But I need to explain why / how this profile is influenced by these forces.

Further within the paper, I would need to explain how/why these life choices would be
limited. How is the profile limited because of social class (being raised by an
undereducated family in a rural setting) or possibly because of sex / gender (what is
expected of a male fitting this profile versus a female)?

Additionally, I predict that the experiences of those who match this profile would be
different if their parent's educational level (in terms of education as a representation of
social class) was higher. I would explore the impact of parent's education (using
academic sources) upon their children.

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