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Cary Gallant Sociological Theory
I am taking the life story of my mother Tammy Lynn Gallant to analyze in a sociological perspective. Tammy was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada. She was born at the Grace Maternity Hospital, known today as the IWK Children’s Hospital, on November 13th 1978. Born to parents also known as my grandparents Kathleen Kharma, and Mike Kharma. Tammy’s mother was born and raised on McNut’s Island off the shores of Shelburne. While her father was born in Lebanon, and immigrated to Canada where he met and married Kathleen. Therefore Tammy is Canadian, and half Lebanese. Tammy has lived and grown up in Halifax Nova Scotia, with her 2 other siblings, brother George and sister Rhonda. Tammy had lived next door to a guy named Eric Gallant, who she started …show more content…
She had started her own maid service that she has continued to run to this very day. Tammy had moved to another house located in Lower Sackville around the age of 27, where she finally felt settled with Eric and daughter Ashley. On November 15th, 2006, Tammy and Eric had given birth to another baby girl, who she named Autumn. Tammy is a very positive individual, she has a shy personality at first, although when she opens up to others she is a very fun spirited person to be around. Tammy has had many different sociological concepts and theories throughout her life, and will continue to go through many more, as she gets …show more content…
On top of everything else Tammy had also needed to gather proper items for the soon to be delivered baby, along with finding an affordable place to live with her boyfriend Eric at the time.
Towards the end of the 9 months Tammy had given birth to a baby girl Ashley, she was financially stable and had plenty of support. This is a sociological concept of Rationalization as Tammy was given a specific goal, and she had many negative events occur while trying to achieve this goal, in which she successfully had accomplished. Tammy also had a strong Belief of the term “ Everything happens for a reason”. This belief was one she has carried throughout her whole life up until this very day. It originated after four months of giving birth to her daughter Ashley, her father’s asthma had gotten to the worst stage possible and unfortunately he passed due to an asthma attack. Tammy was very close to her father, and she believed if it weren’t for having the positive distraction of a new child, she would have been in a very bad place due to her father’s passing. Tammy had also went back to school for the year and attended a few courses, to which she received a certificate stating she had completed secondary

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