● Sex
● Gender
● Social class
● Race/ Racial Group, Ethnicity group (African American) (Nigerian)
● Cultural diffusion
● Privilege, Values, Prejudice
● Role/role conflict, role strain, role exit
● Deviance
● Total institution
● Functions of families
● The nuclear family (4 siblings and both parents)
● Ethnicity
● Stereotypes
● Discrimination
● Social mobility
● Symbolic Interactionist perspective, Functionalist perspective, and Conflict perspective
● sociological imagination
● high-income countries, low income countries, and middle income countries
● Industrialization
● Urbanization
● Positivism
● Social Darwinism
● Social facts
● Theory
● Manifest function
● Latent function
● Postmodern perspective
● Culture
● Material and non material culture
● Cultural universals, Cultural change
● Symbols, language, Norms, sanctions
● Folkways, mores, taboos
● Diversity, technology
● Cultural lag, cultural diversity
● Counter cultures, cultural shock
● Ethnocentrism
● Authoritarian personality
● Genocide
● Individual discrimination, institutional discrimination
● Assimilation
● Segregation
● Split labor market
● Racial formation
For this assignment, you will reflect on your own life story, making connections between
your everyday life/life story and the broad sociocultural structures within which you live.
To begin this assignment, consider your own life as you review all the textbook readings
and online weekly lessons and decide which sociological concepts you wish to explain in
connection to a part or parts of your own life story. Focus on vocabulary words in bold in
your textbook reading, for example, and decide which terms apply to you and to your life
story.( The Vocabs are listed above)
Please note that you do not need to include, and should not include, intimate or sensitive
information about your background in this assignment. There are many very general
sociological concepts that apply to each person’s life. If you have an extenuating
circumstance, please contact your instructor for additional guidance.
Your paper must contain scholarly support in the form of paraphrases *only* with
respective citations from the assigned reading (the textbook/lesson) and the outside
scholarly source that you identify on your own. Do not directly quote from sources for this
paper, but instead paraphrase in your own words from source material and cite the
sources with parenthetical in-text citations and with full APA-style references on a
reference page at the end of your essay.
Requirement
● Length: 2-3 pages (not including the reference page)
● 1-inch margins
● Double spaced
● 12-point font
● Page number in the upper right of all pages
● Parenthetical in-text citations and reference page formatted in APA style
● Abstract and title page not required
