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The Sociological Perspective

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How can who we are in society(race, social status, gender) have an effect on our future? Society can affect our future by shaping our lives and the person we chose to fall In love. When The author of the chapter The Sociological Perspective is explaining, Seeing the General in the Particular, He explains how society shapes people into various categories such as women by stating,“...Lillian Rubin (1976) found that higher-income women typically expect the men they married to be sensitive to others, to talk readily,and to share feelings and experiences. Lower-income women, she found, had very different expectations and we're looking for men who did not drink too much, were not violent, and held steady jobs.” This explains to the reader that women

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