Tiffany Toutant

SOC-2000
Autoethnography
an outline
THE PAST:

conflict theory as it applies/applied inequality in early life (financial, social, filial,

perceptual, causal, educational, anecdotal, and etcetera)
functionalism as it applies/applied to elementary education, language acquisition, filial
responsibilities, early work experiences, social sensitivity and responsiveness
symbolic interactionism as it applies/applied to filially perpetuated norms, values, and
beliefs, band nomenclature, aesthetic representation, and ideology

THE PRESENT:

internalized norms, beliefs, values, and pretensions; self-representative bands, music

affiliations
current work experience as affected by conflict theory; "my life as a proletariat"
preemptive financial/intellectual socialization via academia
preemptive social/societal/filial socialization via "college life"
socialization of current "existential" responsibilities influencing quality of life (leases, job
applications, prioritizing, functions, adaptations, latent pattern maintenances and
responsiveness/susceptibility to latent pattern maintenance performed by an outside party,
role conflict between student and worker, and etcetera)
current sexual orientation, biological sex, enacted gender, physical/physiological
appearance, explicit values, observable behavior, perceivable ethnicity, explicit references
social class, mannerisms (idiosyncratic, innate, and internalized), current level of
matriculation, religion (or lack thereof)

THE FUTURE:

goal attainment (Parsons' AGIL scheme) as it applies to social, geographic, existential,

financial, aesthetic, anecdotal, experiential, physiological, and intellectual aspirations
potential activism (marijuana legalization, for instance)
filial changes (deaths, births, transfers, excommunications)
unwanted or not ideal changes to social, geographic, existential, financial, aesthetic,
anecdotal, experiential, physiological, and intellectual status and well-being
potential causal impacts and influences on other individuals
potential causal impacts and influences by or with other individuals