...A Student’s Socioautobiography: An Example The first time I ever left my family to be independent was when I came to the U.S. I had family here but everything was still very new to me. I was unprepared, still very dependent, and it was the first time I had ever been away from my family. Thank God I still had someone who was willing to taking care of my tuition and living expenses. Leaving home at eighteen to go out on my own and start my own life, there were many things I wasn’t prepared for. I couldn’t afford to go to college, and even if I could, I really had no idea of what I wanted to do with my life anyway. My decision to go right into the work force was, at the time, a logical one. I figured I could find a job that would pay me well enough that I could afford to have all the things I never had growing up, and one that would enable me to move out of the welfare status I had been raised in. Having been raised during an era when the rhetoric was all about women being equal to men in the workplace, I truly believed that I could do anything a man could do, and deserved to be paid the same for the same work. With this in mind, I found a job in a manufacturing plant where I was, it appeared, the “token” female employee. My fellow employees were all men, and I was placed in the uncomfortable position of having to prove that I not only could do the job, but was also “one of the guys.” Gender differences are more readily apparent in some workplaces than others. While...
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...The first time I ever left my family to become a wife, mother was when I was very young, this marriage unfortunately did not last long due to abusive relationship and not stable income. So I decide to separate, move in back with my parents and persuade my education so I can give my daughters better life, stability and become very independent myself. Because I thought was never re-marry again and I didn’t want to depend of my parents for the rest of my life neither. I went back to school to finish high school and right after I graduated from high school I met my new husband and then I came to the U.S. I had family here but everything was still very new to me. I was scared, still very dependent of my husband, I didn’t speak the language, everything was new to me and it was the first time I had ever been away from my family. Thank God I still had someone who was willing to taking care of me, my two little girls and living expenses. Leaving home at the age of twenty-three, even thought I was married twice at that age, with kids to go on and start my own life, in another country, there were many things I wasn’t prepared for. I couldn’t afford to go to college, and even if I could, I really had no idea of what I wanted to do with my life anyway. My decision to go right into the work force was, at the time, a logical one. I have left my girls back in Panama for the first year and I was focused on trying to make money to bring them with me. I figured I could find a job that would...
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...The Effects of Social Media on Our Lives Joy Hyman DeVry University SOC 5185 Sociological Imagination Mary Kay Hoskovec “The Effects of Social Media on Our Lives” Social media is one of the single largest platform, people used to communicate in the modern world. Whether it is Facebook, Instagram, My space or Twitter, we sometime fall prey to one or the other. This could be in the form of, connecting with an old collage friend or keeping in touch with families. The problem is sometime we get so caught up into these social media which oftentimes leads to diverse effect on our lives more so if we are in a committed relationship. ...
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...Construction of Identity and Worldview: The Influence of Social Variables The meaning of human identity is vast and complex. Identity, for our purposes, is in part a derivation of an inseparable piece of one’s consciousness, and largely an assembly of attitudes, behaviors, values, and beliefs collected and learned during a lifetime. Individual identity, as the centerpiece of an individual’s place in society, is the mechanism through which worldviews are shaped. Identity may seem a nonessential study of little consequence in comparison to more explicit and trenchant topics, but actually is very consequential. Identities and worldviews are, after all, what have defined and created our reality as we know it. Movements toward social equality and political progressiveness have been born as a result of identities and worldviews differing from that of the collective. To study the social variables that mold identity and construct worldview is to study how our species has created our reality. Learning about the way identities and worldviews are shaped is the first step necessary in altering the formation of those identities and worldviews in order to change our thinking; to create a better and more equal reality. In some cases, such as my own, the formation of an individual’s identity is influenced by a collection of social variables typical of those within their society, as well as variables considered atypical. An absence of organized religion, Caucasian racial categorization, a culture...
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...SOCS 185 Week 5 Socioautobiography Assignment Information and Rubric Below are guidelines to follow as you work on your socioautobiography assignment: * Papers should be in APA format, with a title page. * Papers should contain 3-4 pages of text, double-spaced (this does not include the title page). * Refer to at least six sociological concepts covered in the lectures or textbook reading. Highlight these concepts in boldface. * Connect your concepts to the TCOs. Indicate the TCOs covered in parentheses, as demonstrated in the assignment instructions. Grading Rubric: Component | Points Possible | Submission refers to at least six sociological concepts covered in the lectures or textbook reading | 55 | Submission relates each concept to the appropriate TCO | 20 | Submission meets minimum length requirement of three to four pages of text | 10 | Submission is well-written and well-organized and free from mechanical errors (errors in spelling, punctuation, and grammar) | 10 | Submission is in correct APA format, with a title page | 5 | | 100 TOTAL POINTS | The following excerpt on a socioautobiography is taken directly from: Kanagy, C. L., & Kraybill, D. B., (1999). The Riddles of Human Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. (Pp. 287, 288,289). Socioautobiography “The purpose of the socioautobiography is to use the insights from sociology to better understand your own story; it is a way of using the concepts of sociology...
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...Sociobiography My Socioautobiography 2010 Donna Hill Soc 187 Assignment #3 12/1/2010 At the age of eighteen, I decided to move out of my parent’s home and attend a major university in Atlanta, GA. My decision to leave home and pursue my educational and career goals was one of the major social influences and impacts of my life. For the first time in my life I was able to make choices on my own as a young adult and not depend upon the guidance and/or demanding terms of my parents. I was prepared for the future and unknown since in my own eyes the socialization I’d been exposed to shaped the behaviors, values and attitudes that I viewed as appropriate. Besides I felt as if I were aware of what was considered the “norm” in society. I was aware of the laws, what was legal and illegal and being fully responsible for my actions since I was now legally an adult. Not only was I aware of the legal consequences for violating norms but the unspoken consequences for not conforming to the informal norms of society that included everything from not walking alone, adhering to some sort of “dress code” that wasn’t inappropriate for a school environment to respecting my roommates and making sure that I reported to my classes as scheduled. As most people will agree, my childhood and the way that I was raised and the social interactions that I encountered shaped the socialization of my adulthood. I was one of four daughters and one son of the typical “nuclear family” where both of my...
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...Title: Socioautobiography Timo Jones Devry University Abstract In this paper, I will be covering my life and the struggles I faced moving from Germany to the United States, as well as the ongoing struggles of being a disabled vet while trying to succeed in life. Socioautobiography Throughout my 21 years of life, I have heard, saw, and learned more about life and its unique struggles then I could ever imagined. As I take a look at my life I notice that I have been living in a world that is designed for the rich and wealthy leaving the rest of society to struggle. Born and raised in Germany, I grew up in a small town in Bavaria; it was very similar to the middle class or lower class in the United States. My parents had very little money but we made things work, we struggled even more since my father was black and my mother German; I was a bi-racial child and already labeled at a young age, alongside my father who always stuck out in the crowd, which made it even harder for us to fit inn. It seemed normal to me that my father could never receive a Job because of his ethnicity, it also seemed normal to me that I could not succeed in school, or receive any kind of tangible acceptance from my grandparents. It was basically left to my Parents to socialize me in a country that wouldn’t really accept me, or my family. (TCO 3, 4 & 5) I was always an outsider and never quite felt comfortable in Germany mainly do to the discrimination that I had seen and felt during...
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...Chamberlain College of Nursing Socioautobiography Professor Adam Rafpolajd 4 October 2015 I grow up with value of being independent woman, and hard work. I came from a lower middle-class family due to my mother widowed working single mother of three children. In my family, gender didn’t affect much of my upbringing. Growing up with three problems and mother who worked 2 jobs; I didn’t really know what it meant to be what society perceived a little girl should act or dress. I wore most of my two older brothers hand me downs, my wardrobe consisted of white, blue and black oversized t-shirts and baggy blue jeans. The social norm for girls in middle school was to play with dolls, jump rope and/or discuss their latest celebrity boy crush. After school, I would hang out at my uncle’s mechanic shop where I would help fix tires, change the oil and tune-ups for cars and motorcycles. Now looking back at my childhood, I realized I wasn’t like most girls at that age. I fell in love with fixing motorcycles, by the age of 16 I could fix a carburetor and spark plugs in a motorcycle. (TCO 3, TCO 4 and TCO 6). My uncle sold his shop and because he was friends with the new owner; I was able to get my first job as a Lube Tech at 18. I truly believed that I could do anything a man could do, and deserved to be treated equally. With this in mind, I dedicated myself to being the best and hard-working employee. I received a lot of...
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...day. The second I receive my high school diploma I felt gratified. The next minute I was off the stage, tossing up my cap towards the sky, and then off to hugs and kisses. A quaint celebration and said goodbyes to fellow classmates. The following hour becomes your Hollywood moment, a benefit in your honor with family and friends, with flash burst from all the cameras. Congratulations! The next day you awake with something poking you in your side, finding you slept with your diploma all night. I rose up from a good sleep wiping the cold from your eye’s gazing at the accredited sheet of paper completely appeased. I was supposed to be satisfied with high school diploma, but I feel shallow as if it was all for none. Back to reality, my socioautobiography given my young age, I do not yet have a long life history to look back upon, which is why I have all the more reasons to thoroughly explore the 38 years of my conscious life to find solutions to the current situations. Most of my adult experience belongs to my children and my school era, an era indeed since my life could have ended a couple of times in the time when hustling was the most importance to me, and I had to change my life. There I was a new high school graduate, the beginning of August I was looking forward to the fact I graduated made me focus harder on becoming my own man in society. Filled with confidence I found myself confronted by my single mother who had raised me on her own. She had blown me away with my...
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...My Socioautobiography 2010 Donna Hill Soc 187 Assignment #3 12/1/2010 At the age of eighteen, I decided to move out of my parent’s home and attend a major university in Atlanta, GA. My decision to leave home and pursue my educational and career goals was one of the major social influences and impacts of my life. For the first time in my life I was able to make choices on my own as a young adult and not depend upon the guidance and/or demanding terms of my parents. I was prepared for the future and unknown since in my own eyes the socialization I’d been exposed to shaped the behaviors, values and attitudes that I viewed as appropriate. Besides I felt as if I were aware of what was considered the “norm” in society. I was aware of the laws, what was legal and illegal and being fully responsible for my actions since I was now legally an adult. Not only was I aware of the legal consequences for violating norms but the unspoken consequences for not conforming to the informal norms of society that included everything from not walking alone, adhering to some sort of “dress code” that wasn’t inappropriate for a school environment to respecting my roommates and making sure that I reported to my classes as scheduled. As most people will agree, my childhood and the way that I was raised and the social interactions that I encountered shaped the socialization of my adulthood. I was one of four daughters and one son of the typical “nuclear family” where both of my parents were married...
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