Socioautobiography/Sociobiography – Personal Case Study

Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

• Textbook: Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Lesson: Week 1, 2, 3
• Minimum of 3 outside scholarly sources
• One personal interview of another person

Introduction
There is a strong tradition of writing both sociologically-informed biographies and sociologically-informed autobiographies in the discipline of sociology. For this assignment, you will be doing a bit of both of those. You will both reflect on your own life story, making connections between your everyday life or your life story and broad sociocultural structures within which you live, and you will also compare and contrast those with someone you interview.

The socioautobiography is a "disciplined, systematic exploration of one's life from a sociological point of view" (Hill, 2009, p. 3). Also, the sociobiography is the systematic exploration of another person's life from a sociological point of view.

Instructions
To begin this assignment, consider your own life as you review all the textbook readings and online weekly lessons and decide which sociological concepts you wish to explain in connection to a part or parts of your own life story. Click on the following link for questions to consider as you reflect on your life: