Answer & Explanation:By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:Competency 3: Explain the significance of social stratification and social inequality for the individual and society.Evaluate one’s own educational experience from a sociological perspective.Explain sociological issues that affect one’s own field of study.Competency 4: Analyze the influence of culture and socialization on both the individual and society.Examine the impact of culture and socialization on one’s own life.Competency 5: Evaluate the impact of social change on society and social institutions.Evaluate the impact of social structure and groups on one’s own life.Evaluate the role of technology and media in one’s own life.Competency 6: Demonstrate written and verbal communication skills for effectively presenting sociological concepts, ideas, and analyses.Write in a professional style using APA 6th edition referencing and format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.Mills tells us of the intersection between public issues and private troubles. Throughout the course we have learned to use our sociological imagination to understand this difference—especially in terms of our own lives.For your final project you will reflect on the question, “Who am I?” using the sociological imagination to understand and explain your everyday experiences. In doing so, you will look at the impact of social forces on your individual life. This requires you to apply the concepts, theories, and applicable sociological understandings that you have encountered in the course.To successfully complete this assignment, you will write a paper with these components:Introduction: Introduce yourself and what you plan on discussing in your paper.Culture and Socialization: Examine the impact culture and socialization has had on your life. Consider the following when creating this section:How did you develop a sense of self?What agents of socialization had the biggest impact on you? How?How has culture influenced your life?Social Structure and Groups: Discuss the impact social structure and groups have had on your life. Considering the following:How have various groups (primary, secondary, reference, etc.) guided your behavior?What statuses have you held? What roles have you played?How have social hierarchies shaped your life choices?Education: Discuss how a sociologist would explain your experience with education. In doing so, consider the following:What major functions have education had for you?How has education been related to your life outcomes?What experiences with inequality have you had in education?Professional Field: Discuss the main sociological issues that affect your field of study or the field you intend to study at this point in your education. Be sure to include any social changes that may impact your field.Technology and Media: Analyze the role technology and media have in your everyday life.What impact have new communication technologies and social media had on your life?What messages have the media and popular culture communicated to you?What role has globalization played in your life?Summary: Briefly summarize the issues you discussed in the paper.Bibliography: Your analysis in each section should be supported by sociological concepts and course materials. You may also seek outside materials to support your analysis. A bibliography or works-cited page is required, in APA format. It should contain all the references that you used in the project. Your bibliography should include all materials you directly quote, all materials you paraphrase, and any materials you might refer to. Remember that using information created by other people without properly crediting them constitutes plagiarism. This includes Internet materials. Do not forget to include a full citation for any Web site you have used.Be sure to address any issues related to inequality or stratification as they apply to the various sections.Your paper should be a minimum of five pages in length, excluding the cover page and the references page.
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Criteria
Nonperformance
Examine the impact of culture
and socialization on one’s own
Does not identify the impact of
culture and socialization on
Identifies, but does not
examine the impact of
Examines the impact of
culture and socialization on
Evaluates the impact of culture and
socialization on one’s own life by
one’s own life.
culture and socialization on
one’s own life.
one’s own life.
demonstrating a strong understanding of
appropriate sociological concepts.
Does not analyze the impact of
social structure and groups on
one’s own life.
Analyzes but does not
evaluate the impact of social
structure and groups on one’s
own life.
Evaluates the impact of social
structure and groups on one’s
own life.
Evaluates the impact of social structure and
groups on one’s own life and links the
structure to individual action.
Evaluate one’s own
educational experience from a
sociological perspective.
17%
Does not analyze one’s own
educational experience from a
sociological perspective.
Analyzes but does not
evaluate one’s own
educational experience from
a sociological perspective.
Evaluates one’s own
educational experience from a
sociological perspective.
Evaluates one’s own educational experience
from a sociological perspective, and
demonstrates a strong understanding of
sociological concepts and critical analysis in
evaluation.
Explain sociological issues that
affect one’s own field of study.
17%
Does not explain sociological
issues that affect one’s own
field of study.
Analyzes but does not
explain sociological issues
that affect one’s own field of
study.
Explains sociological issues
that affect one’s own field of
study.
Discusses sociological issues that affect
one’s own field of study, through the use of
sociological concepts and critical analysis.
Evaluate the role of technology
and media in one’s own life.
17%
Does not analyze the role of
technology and media in one’s
own life.
Analyzes, but does not
evaluate the role of
technology and media in
one’s own life.
Evaluates the role of
technology and media in
one’s own life.
Evaluates the role of technology and media
in one’s own life, and demonstrates a strong
understanding of sociological concepts and
critical analysis in evaluation.
Write in a professional style
using APA 6th edition
referencing and format with
correct grammar, usage, and
mechanics.
Does not write in a professional
style using APA 6th edition
referencing and format with
correct grammar, usage, and
mechanics.
Writes using APA 6th
edition referencing and
format with inconsistent
grammar, usage, and
mechanics inconsistently.
Writes in a professional style
using APA 6th edition
referencing and format with
correct grammar, usage, and
mechanics.
Writes exceptionally and in a professional
style using APA 6th edition referencing and
format with correct grammar, usage, and
mechanics that are error free.
life.
17%
Evaluate the impact of social
structure and groups on one’s
own life.
16%
16%
Basic
Proficient
Distinguished
Running head: SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS
Sociological Concepts
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Sociological Concepts and Their Impacts
In this work, I am planning to discuss culture and socialization, social structure and
groups, education, professional fields and technology and media. The concept that I will explain
in the first part which is how culture and socialization have impacted on my life is values,
language, and norms. In the second part, I am going to discuss how social structures and groups
have affected my life, and in this part, I will touch on the concepts such as hierarchy in society
and roles. In the third part, I am going to discuss on the way in which a sociologist would explain
my experience with learning. I will finally discuss how technology and media have impacted on
my life in which the concepts that I am going to touch on are social change and media.
Culture and Socialization
Culture has extensively been defined as the customs, beliefs, and arts of a particular
group, society or a place (Brislin, 1993). It is also a manner of thinking, working or behaving in a
given location. Socialization has been used by the sociologists to refer to the all-time process of
inheriting and disseminating norms, values, customs and ideologies that provide an individual
with habits and skills necessary in a given field of place. Socialization may not be realized, but it
assists us in developing a way in which people develop feelings, perceptions, and the beliefs. I
have been affected by socialization and culture in many ways. Culture shas had major impacts in
my daily life, likewise to socialization. The norms and values that are practiced in culture have
shaped my life in various ways.
I grew up in a place where there were no skyscrapers, cars, traffic lights and major roads.
I grew up and only had to make interactions with my family members and neighbors. When I
first went to a city, it was hard to comprehend and catch up with the life in a city or an urban
center. This was a new environment to me and adapting to it was hard. Environment shapes the
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socialization of a person, like what it did to me that I never had that perception of how people
live in cities. Communicating with people in an urban environment was difficult to me because
this person has their culture especially their mode of dressing was new and strange to me. It is
not only an individual that is affected by culture and socialization but also the society as a whole
(Merton, 1968).
Social Structure and Organization
The organizations of social positions and how people are distributed in them is what is
called the social structure. It is a way in which the society is organized in predictable
relationships (Venkatesh & Morris, 2000). A good example of a social fabric is the way people
are organized in terms or hierarchies based on their educational qualifications and skills. The
social structure has impacted on my life in a way that I have had to work hard to be grouped in
the highest rank in the social fabric of the society. People in the high-class level in the
community are well respected and live in palatial homes unlike people of lower classes in the
society who are found in slums. It is a norm in any culture or a society that individuals of highest
levels in the society are respected and honored.
Technology and Media
Technology and media have significant vital roles my life that includes social change.
Technology has enabled people to communicate and exchange ideas from different regions and
as a result led to a change of ideas that have impacted on the social stratification (Flew, 2007).
Through media, new cultures have been adopted into the society, and these new cultures and
norms have been adopted and accepted. For instance, mode of dressing and language use are
among the most exchanged.
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Professional Field
The sociological concepts that are affecting my field are like culture and stereotype.
Culture plays a major role in most of professional fields. It is as a result of some individuals has
different cultures that are affecting or have impacts on their work places.
Education
In the field of education, the social stereotype has existed, and it is because of how
people have perceived themselves. Most individuals would see themselves as more inferior than
the others, and as a result, they lack the confidence to express themselves. A sociologist would
explain my experience on education based on social stratification and stereotypes that exist in
society.
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References
Brislin, R. (1993). Understanding culture’s influence on behavior. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Flew, T. (2007). New media: An introduction. Oxford University Press.
Merton, R. K. (1968). Social theory and social structure. Simon and Schuster.
Venkatesh, V., & Morris, M. G. (2000). Why don’t men ever stop to ask for directions? Gender,
social influence, and their role in technology acceptance and usage behavior. MIS
Quarterly, 115-139.
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