Autobiography: My Life With A Sociological Perspective
Autobiography Most people do not look at their life with a sociological perspective, which is a way of looking at the world through a sociological lens (Ferris and Stein p. 10). Everyone has had different sociological experiences throughout their life depending on their upbringing, their appearance, what the identified as, and the people they hung out with. There are even more factors to what makes up a person, but few are as prominent. In my case, the people I was around and the things I identified as shaped me in extraordinary ways. A group is a collection of people who share some attribute, identify with one another, and interact with each other. There are different kinds of groups, like a primary group, which is the people most
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264). I had always had an inkling of how I felt about women, but it was never something I had the need to recognize until high school. Even then, it was half through high school when I realized that I am bisexual. I took hours figuring out exactly what that meant and if it was an accurate term for me. I learned that there have been changes to the term over the years because of the recognition of different genders. In the sociology textbook, bisexuality is the attraction to both genders (p. 264). In today’s terms, bisexual means attraction to the same and different genders. This is because of the different genders that have been coined over the last decade or two and saying that bisexuality is only male or female is very exclusionary and has been called problematic before it was changed in recent years. It didn’t take me long to realize the harmful views many people had about bisexual people. These harmful thoughts, which could also be called biphobic, come from not only heterosexual people, but the gay community as well, surprisingly enough. Many people, I’ve noticed, can’t handle the concept of people like more than one gender. People have used the stereotypes that bisexuals are greedy, cheaters, sexually deviant people. Stereotyping is the judgement of others based in preconceived generalizations about groups or
264). I had always had an inkling of how I felt about women, but it was never something I had the need to recognize until high school. Even then, it was half through high school when I realized that I am bisexual. I took hours figuring out exactly what that meant and if it was an accurate term for me. I learned that there have been changes to the term over the years because of the recognition of different genders. In the sociology textbook, bisexuality is the attraction to both genders (p. 264). In today’s terms, bisexual means attraction to the same and different genders. This is because of the different genders that have been coined over the last decade or two and saying that bisexuality is only male or female is very exclusionary and has been called problematic before it was changed in recent years. It didn’t take me long to realize the harmful views many people had about bisexual people. These harmful thoughts, which could also be called biphobic, come from not only heterosexual people, but the gay community as well, surprisingly enough. Many people, I’ve noticed, can’t handle the concept of people like more than one gender. People have used the stereotypes that bisexuals are greedy, cheaters, sexually deviant people. Stereotyping is the judgement of others based in preconceived generalizations about groups or