Directions: Answer all the questions above using a paragraph or two to answer each question. Your document should include a heading with the assignment title and your name at the top. Step-by- step process
. List 3 or 4 statuses that you occupy (at least one achieved and one ascribed status).
What symbols of your status(es) do you display?
Do you have a master status? If so, what is it?
2. What are some of the roles attached to these statuses?
Describe areas of role conflict in your life now or in your past?
What are some areas in your life in which you experience (or have experienced) role strain?
3. What are some of the groups you belong to based on these statuses?
List at least one primary group and one secondary group.
How about networks? What networks do you participate in?
How do these groups and networks affect your sense of self and interactions with others?
Give one example of the power dynamics that you have witnessed in the group, either describing yourself or others (conformity, obedience to authority, groupthink, etc.)
4. Now, locate these statuses, roles, groups, and networks within larger institutional structures. For examples of social institutions, see any Introduction to Sociology text’s table of contents for chapter titles (and institutions) like marriage and family, religion, education, government, economy, and healthcare.
What are the “functions” of these institutional structures?
Which institutions exert the most force on your daily life?
5. You have described some of the mechanisms that link you to macro-level social structure.
With this overall perspective, reflect on what you have learned about yourself.
Make at least one substantive observation about yourself that stands out to you from the exercise.
