During the first half of the class, we've covered the sociological imagination in some detail. Also,...

During the first half of the class, we've covered the sociological imagination in some detail. Also, we've covered some of the most important structural forces at work in each of our lives: race (Week 3); class (Week4); and gender and sexuality (Week 5). In this CAP assignment, I'd like you to think about how biography, social structure, and history have intersected in your life and culminated in the person you are today. Give me a sense of the biographical experiences that make up who you are, perhaps highlighting key individual moments in yours life. Additionally, show how these biographical experiences were nested within a certain social context (i.e. structure) and historical period. Most importantly: write critically and creatively and use your sociological imagination. For some guidance for how this all comes together, see my (informal) illustration in the Week #2 Lecture Notes and note how I analyze biography, social structure, and history.

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The social structure includes the relationships of a person with his family, his historical back ground and how it defines the upbringing and development of a person and the relationship and communication of a person in the society. It defines the complete personality of a person with respect to the cultural background and the type of society in which one is living. It was studied by C wright Mills who taught at Columbia University. It depends upon factors like--

Number of people who are unemployed in a country and the extent of migration of a group of people belonging to a particular ethnic background, race, historical phylogenetic history, and particular diverse history.
It depends upon the personal issues, structure of the family and society is which the person lives and personal troubles in life.
The race of a person is society with respect to the amount of upliftment and input for developing the components and laying the framework of a new community in a country.
It includes the study of the adverse factors in a country which can lead to mass migration of people from one country to another like war, rebellion, murder, arsony, change of climate, natural calamities like floods, hurricanes, volcanoes and earthquakes

Experiances--The Race studies include for example the sword presented to the General Sir David Baird during the capture of Seringapatam fortress, mysore. The collection of instruments, art in the gallery and museums which depicts the excellence of the importance of the items from the historical perspectives. The life of the migrants and their kind of attachment with their families and friends in their home countries was studies which is called as the transnational life.

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