Workbook Chapter 3-4-11
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- Pose the question “Who am I?” to yourself and, as quickly as you can, write twenty short answers to it in the left-hand column.
Who Am I?
1. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self2. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self
3. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self
4. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self
5. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self
6. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self
7. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self
8. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self
9. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self
10. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self
11. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self
12. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self
13. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self
14. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self
15. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self
16. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self
17. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self
18. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self
19. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self
20. / --choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological self
Now go back and code each of your answers in the right-hand column, using the drop-down box to indicate whether it is part of your physical, active, social, or psychological self. Into which category did the majority of your answers fall?
--choose one--physical selfactive selfsocial selfpsychological selfWhat does this tell you about your self-concept at this point in your life? (Make sure that you do sociological analysis of your personal identity.)
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- In the left-hand column, list your status set – i.e., all of the important statuses you occupy at this point in your life. (Try to fill every line.)
Status / Type
--choose one--ascribedachieved
--choose one--ascribedachieved
--choose one--ascribedachieved
--choose one--ascribedachieved
--choose one--ascribedachieved
--choose one--ascribedachieved
--choose one--ascribedachieved
--choose one--ascribedachieved
--choose one--ascribedachieved
--choose one--ascribedachieved
Now go back and code each status using the drop-down box in the right-hand column, indicating if the status is ascribed or achieved. Into which category do the majority of your statuses fall? Which status above is your current master status?
--choose one--more ascribedmore achievedevenly split / Master status:What do the two answers immediately above mean for your personal and social identity?
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- Select a role associated with one of your statuses. (Note: Make sure that it fits the definition of a role, not a status.)
Name of role:
How does your role performance vary from society’s role expectation?
How have you experienced role strain with regard to this role, or role conflict between this and another role?
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- Conduct your own ethnomethodological breaching experiment with regard to the existence of personal space within public areas. In a public area where at least several other people are already gathered, violate an unspoken social rule about how people are supposed to occupy that space. You may choose to conduct your experiment where a group of people is standing around (e.g., hallway before class, smokers outside the building, etc.) or in a public area where people are seated (e.g., library, cafeteria, lounge area, college classroom, fast food restaurant). Approach the environment and, without explanation, stand or take a seat (as relevant) in a way that violates an unspoken rule about how people are supposed to occupy that space. Note: You may want to do this with at least one friend for security. Do not violate any laws or put yourself or others at risk. If you are making yourself or others excessively uncomfortable, stop the experiment. When finished, if at all possible please explain to the other people what you were doing and why. Discuss your experience below.
Relevant background details (location, time, # and characteristics of people who were already there, etc.)
The unspoken rule that you violated:
How others reacted and why:
How you reacted and why:
What you learned about norms and deviance:
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- Choose either your family of orientation, your family of procreation (if you have one), or your family of choice (see text) and explain how it is structured on each of the following dimensions.
Family type: / --choose one--family of orientationfamily of procreationfamily of choice
--choose one--extendednuclear / Explain:
--choose one--patrilineal descentmatrilineal descentbilateral descent / Explain:
--choose one--patriarchalmatriarchalegalitarian / Explain:
--choose one--patrilocalmatrilocalneolocal / Explain:
--choose one--endogamousexogamous / Explain:
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