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Personal Culture Assignment

Sociology

Fall 2015

The purpose of this assignment is to encourage each class member to reflect on, analyze, and compose her or his thoughts, observations, information, etc. regarding the cultural aspects of his or her life. As I indicated early in the quarter, the observations and thoughts could range quite broadly over matters of daily life as well as features, activities, and artifacts that are more formal in nature. For instance, students might include family traditions as well as artwork displayed in their homes; activities such as movie-going, church or other religious activity, vacations, and leisure activity could be included too.

In a short essay (250-350 wds – as reference this assignment is 297 words long), write a description of your personal culture. The description should include a general statement that characterizes your personal culture (for example, you might think of your personal culture as “laid back,” “intense,” “romantic,” “idealistic,” “pragmatic,” or some other characteristic). The general statement should be followed by specific examples that support the general quality you have chosen. In such a short essay, you won’t be able to say everything about your personal culture. But that’s not the purpose of this assignment anyway. The purpose, remember, has to do with reflection, analysis, and composition.

Reflection includes both thoughts and feelings; analysis involves relative values and significances; composition entails writing a carefully organized, clearly focused, and appropriately expressed statement of the thoughts, feelings, and related analysis.

Clarity, focus, coherence, development, and appropriate grammar and mechanics will provide the basic elements of your grade. Specifically, you must address the question about the “character” of your personal culture.

Requirements: Typed

Must be physically turned in – no sharing.

11-12 point font

1” Margins

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