Social Biography
Aysegul Torun
Mr. Swiencicki
Soc 2
Apr. 29th, 2013
Social Biography
In this paper I’m going to write about a sociological biography of a person who I interviewed and I’m going to analyze some of the social problems such as “drug war and race”, race discrimination, drug abuse, and importance of a well structured family based on my interviewee’s answers. I like to talk about family because I think family is where everything starts. If we want to define what the social problem actually means is then according to Delmar.edu the official definition of social problem is that “social problems are societal induced conditions that harms any segment of the population. Social problems are also related to acts and conditions that violate the norms and values found in society”. I’ll the data that I’m going to share in this paper is given to me by my interviewee. First of all, my interviewee is a twenty-two years old working class Hispanic male and his name is Dave. Currently he is attending to Berkeley City College and planning on transferring to UC Berkeley. Also he is a reserved solider who has been in the army almost for four years now. Because Dave does not have the common Hispanic look, I also like to include that he is green eyed, blond hair, and tall man. Since he does not look the way it expected, when he was young, he was not being fully accepted by the people around him and sometimes even in his family. He says that “sometimes people ask me if I’m white or not and of course I say; no. he also includes that some times people say him that just because he look white it doesn’t mean he is too good to be around them even though he was too young to be think that way. People were just being paranoid.
When I asked him how he was treated emotionally and physically by his family and his answer was pretty much what I expected. He said that “They were emotionally and physically abusive. They made me feel worthless. It was very abusive I got my ass beat up
Mr. Swiencicki
Soc 2
Apr. 29th, 2013
Social Biography
In this paper I’m going to write about a sociological biography of a person who I interviewed and I’m going to analyze some of the social problems such as “drug war and race”, race discrimination, drug abuse, and importance of a well structured family based on my interviewee’s answers. I like to talk about family because I think family is where everything starts. If we want to define what the social problem actually means is then according to Delmar.edu the official definition of social problem is that “social problems are societal induced conditions that harms any segment of the population. Social problems are also related to acts and conditions that violate the norms and values found in society”. I’ll the data that I’m going to share in this paper is given to me by my interviewee. First of all, my interviewee is a twenty-two years old working class Hispanic male and his name is Dave. Currently he is attending to Berkeley City College and planning on transferring to UC Berkeley. Also he is a reserved solider who has been in the army almost for four years now. Because Dave does not have the common Hispanic look, I also like to include that he is green eyed, blond hair, and tall man. Since he does not look the way it expected, when he was young, he was not being fully accepted by the people around him and sometimes even in his family. He says that “sometimes people ask me if I’m white or not and of course I say; no. he also includes that some times people say him that just because he look white it doesn’t mean he is too good to be around them even though he was too young to be think that way. People were just being paranoid.
When I asked him how he was treated emotionally and physically by his family and his answer was pretty much what I expected. He said that “They were emotionally and physically abusive. They made me feel worthless. It was very abusive I got my ass beat up