Socio-biographical Sketch Of A Fam Member

The religious institution introduced to my grandmother, Alice, since her birth in 1927 had a tremendous influence on her. She attended a Baptist Church with her mother that had been started by missionaries from Sweden. It was attended mainly by immigrants and first generation Americans of Swedish descent, my grandmother being a first generation Swedish-American. This social fact of her life, as well as the others I will point, reflect C. Wright Mills’ perspective of the “sociological imagination”, which he defined as the ability to see the societal patterns that influence an individual as well as a group of individuals. To do so, he said, one must have knowledge of the social and historical c

My grandmother lived through The Depression as a child. As a result of her family’s class status, she was not directly affected economically. She was, however, affected in the sense that the suffering that she saw in others and her parents’ willingness to help those in need further established her identity. To Alice, it has and will always feel like a sin to waste food. Her strong religious and ethnic morals of respect, in effect with the political awareness that there are always people without the resources to obtain sufficient amounts of food, contributed to creating Alice’s identity.

ontext in which people lived (Andersen and Taylor, 5). Alice attended this church because her mother believed the teachings of it and wanted her child to be introduced to them as well. Her mother attended this particular church because she had immigrated to Sweden to the U.S. and wanted to worship amongst those who shared this with her. Thus, my grandmother’s ethnicity and religion were large influences on her moral values which she still carries with her. These values, Alice explained, were typical of the Swedish and also were expected of her church’s followers. As I have noticed in my Grandma, as well as her pointing this out in the interview, honesty to and respect for everyone were things that were and are not questioned--they’re just done. These common morals were the basis for the relationships t

Some topics in this essay:
Andersen Taylor, War II, Alice Culture, Social Welfare, GI Bill, Wright Mills’, Baptist Church, Americans Swedish, UC Berkeley, , church mother, religious views, politically aware, swedish descent, political religious, political religious views, religious institution, class status,