Assignment
In this assignment, you will give an autoethnographic response. You will reflect on your own relationship with reading from a sociological perspective. Think about both the structural and cultural factors that influenced your relationship with reading and books, and about how that relationship has shaped your university experience so far.
1) Structural considerations:
a) Did I grow up in an environment where books or other reading materials were present?
b) Did my parents have the time to read to me when I was young?
c) Did my school provide the learning materials and support to encourage reading?
2) Cultural considerations:
a) Did my environment include people to whom reading was an important activity or skill?
b) What was the orientation towards reading for pleasure in my childhood environment?
c) How did the culture of my environment interact with the more macro-level social orientation towards reading (you can engage with ideas from "Reading with a grain of salt" to answer this question)