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Interviewing and Analyzing Socialization

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Identify each person's class, race, and gender.
What role has class, race, and gender played in their lives? How do you see these stratifiers as playing a role, even if the interviewee is unaware of it?
Apply one of the sociological perspectives (structural-functional, social-conflict, or symbolic-interaction) to the individuals' lives. Why did you choose this particular perspective? How does it explain each person's life and life choices?
What are some the benefits and limitations to using interview as a research methodology?
Analyze each person's components of culture (language, symbols, material objects, and behaviors) and relate them to his/her stratified position in society.

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This solution will assist the student in preparing an interview outline for gathering data in gender, race, and class and how it affects socialization. It also provides information on analyzing the information.

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In the development of interview questions, you want to first outline how much information you want to glean from the interviewee and what information you will need in order to prepare an adequate analysis.

Identify each person's class, race, and gender.

Consider asking race and gender first. These are mostly observable and you can exercise at least some bias if you are seeking more diversity amongst your interviewees. Based on modern times, it would be appropriate to ask what race the person identifies with. You could also ask what visible race the individual would be classified under. I say this because some people may be of multiple races but are seen by others as a particular race and/or they may only identify with one race. How the person identifies racially is significant in how they identify socially and culturally with respect to their peer groups. If their visible race is different than the race they identify with, this can cause challenges in what peer groups they are accepted into.

Similarly, with respect to gender, you can be inclusive or exclusive with this question by exercising a level of bias. You can choose to interview a male and a female or a number of combinations. This can also include transgendered persons. If you decide to include transgendered persons, it would be beneficial to understand what gender they were reared as (conditioned as) and what gender they feel they were actually. This process changes a person's relationships with others as well as changes their worldview of belonging. In your analysis, the issue of gender disparity in the workplace may reveal itself and the level of belonging and acceptance into that specifically gendered space.

Of your three initial questions, the question about class will not be the most obvious to the interviewer, or even the interviewee. There are some people who were reared in families where class was a part of how the family belonged in a network of families or within a specific, closely affiliated community. It is characteristic of some class structures that the children of certain families would be married. This is a reality of social class. There are social class structures where race is classified as well. An example of this is in Jamaica where they have officially classified eight degrees of "Whiteness" or "Blackness" depending on how you look at it. The general structure is the same. How "White" your skin tone is favoured and automatically places you in a certain social class. While ...

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