Homework: Sociobiography Narrated PowerPoint - Comparative Case Study
Introduction
As you learned, for your Socioautobiography Narrated PowerPoint homework, there is a strong tradition of creating both sociologically-informed biographies and sociologically-informed autobiographies in the discipline of sociology. The socio autobiography is a "disciplined, systematic exploration of one's life from a sociological point of view" (Hill, 2009, p. 3). Also, the sociobiography is the systematic exploration of another person's life from a sociological point of view.
For this homework, you will be building upon the work you began in your Week 3 Socioautobiography Narrated PowerPoint. For this week's homework, you will interview an adult person of your choosing and complete a sociobiography of that person, and present that in a narrated PowerPoint. You will also compare and contrast that person's sociological characteristics with your own.
To begin this homework, consider the sociological concepts you focused on for your Week 3 homework about yourself and consider what sociological concepts you would like to compare and contrast with the person you interview.
Reflect
Just as you did for your homework, and now, as you create questions to ask the person you interview, consider the following questions for potential use in your interview:
o How might a sociologist introduce you?
o How have social influences shaped you?
o What were the social forces that constructed your life or lifestyle?
o How have you negotiated the crisscrossing pressures of autonomy and conformity?
o Who are you in social context and what does it mean to understand your life using the "sociological imagination," or utilizing a sociological perspective?
o What sociological concepts would be most helpful in understanding and interpreting your life experiences, whether class, or reference group, conformity, agents of socialization, gender socialization, racial socialization, norms, roles, significant others, total institutions (particularly if you were in the military), achieved status, ascribed status, deviance, subculture, culture, culture shock, ethnocentrism, folkways, mores, peer groups, and any others described in the textbook chapters, to interpret your life experiences?
o What events, moments, or relationships in your life have impacted you significantly?
Interview
Locate an adult willing to be interviewed about their life story. The person can be any adult you choose, whether in your family or outside your family. Be sure to inform that person that you will be writing up your observations from the interview in a presentation for your Society and Culture course.
Present
In a narrated PowerPoint, compare and contrast your sociological observations about yourself that you shared in your Week 3 homework with your sociological observations of the person you interview. Address the following 2 important sections:
o Explore the interconnections between the life story of a person you interview and the larger social structure or culture.
o Compare and contrast the sociological themes and concepts related to your own personal story with the sociological themes and concepts related to the story of the person you interviewed. Apply the sociological imagination in the analysis.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.