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My Socialization and Social Forces Analysis (10 pages double-spaced) (3 course sources and 2 outside sources minimum) (Due by 9pm Saturday during week #7) (20%): Write a narrative analysis that explains your own social development as a person coming from your (intersectional) national origin, ethnicity, class, gender, educational experiences. Research and study your intersectional identity. in this paper through sociological self reflection. Explain how you, your conscious ‘self’, shaped, managed, and expressed your social identity in your previous stages of life by describing two situations like the one’s described in Solito by Javier Zamora. As you reflect and write your analysis, think about the lessons we learned from the sociologists we discussed and decide which you feel frames social reality in a way that most applies to your life experiences: Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Goffman, Martineau, DuBois, Chambliss, or other sociologist’s article or book. This will require research beyond our readings. Apply three of their concepts to your framing of your two significant experiences you wrote about. Be sure to read and take plenty of notes on the theorist you chose before you start writing. Keep your notes handy as you begin writing. You must show mastery of the concepts in this paper.Come up with a title that captures the gist of your overall life story based on where your journey is headed and where you started. Make sure you focus on sociologically significant experiences like: economic, religious, migratory, gendered, technological, or such significant changes that affected you and your family and community.The goal of the paper is to have you critically and fully weave together and apply the appropriate sociological concepts we covered in our readings to your personal experience during childhood. Examine yourself as an agentive adult who is growing their knowledge base, self understanding, and understanding of society. Reflect on developing you own life’s vision, purpose and how you want to contribute to society. What do you value and what kind of social roles are calling to you? Which roles seem most appealing? Why? How do you see yourself embodying those future roles? How has your past shaped these goals?In this paper you will be answering these questions: How did you become who you are and how are you currently becoming the kind of ‘self’ and ‘social identity’ you want to be? What social institutions acted as ‘agents of socialization’ in shaping who you were 9 years old (Javiercito’s age in the book Solito) and which are shaping you now at your current age? What social forces shaped the twists and turns in your life (social circumstances)? Explain how they are structuring the patterns in your life and how much you have the ‘agency’ to shape these patterns and outcomes. Finally, write a paragraph that explains how this assignment affected your awareness or consciousness of your social identity as well as your personal views, values, and goals. Include a Works Cited Page (using ASA style guideLinks to an external site.https://www.asanet.org/wp-content/uploads/savvy/documents/teaching/pdfs/Quick_Tips_for_ASA_Style.pdf) .course sources link: 1. https://nook.barnesandnoble.com/my_library 2. https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-sociology-3e
