introduction to sociology milestone 2

Milestone 2 Instructions

Answer each of the following questions.  Each of your answers should be a 150-200 words, be double spaced and have direct reference (quotes) to section content with proper in-text citations*

NO OUTSIDE SOURCES ARE TO BE USED

1a)Interview someone from a different culture or a significantly different age group and ask them questions about their experience with culture, guiding by the elements in the Culturgram.  Discuss the differences between their culture and your own.

OR - if you cannot find someone to interview you can complete the following alternate question:

1b)Describe a time in your life that you were practicing ethnocentrism. Why do you think this happened?  What do you think you could do differently?

THEN YOU MUST ALSO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING Qs:

2) What do you think is the biggest socialization influence in your life?  Explain with examples of how you have learned culture and developed your personality.

3) Which theory do you think has the strongest explanatory power in applying to Culture? Why?

*For this course you can reference the text as
(Griffiths et al 2015)

All text excerpts are from Griffiths et al (2015). If there is a quote or reference within a text excerpt; you include both the original author and year and the author and year of the work where quote/idea was found in the in-text reference. Add "as cited in" before the author in the in-text reference. For example - (Mills, 1955, as cited in Griffiths et al 2015). 

Mini lectures like this:
(Leduc, Fall 2025)

And videos like this
(Title of Video, Youtube 2025)