After Sociology, who am I?

After experiencing this semester of sociology, I have become a more sociologically mindful person. I've learned a lot more about life and I would like to say I've learned a lot more about people as well. I've learned how I've subtly been shaped by society over the years, as well as how I've been impacted by culture and my social class. Like I mentioned in my very first blog, I'm a very determined girl striving for success. I learned that I've become determined and thirsty for acheivement because of how I've grown up. In an area where mostly everybody is upper class, successful people, I've become used to that type of lifestyle so I wouldn't really know how to live any other way. This has formed the idea in my head that success is important and something I need to accomplish. On a different note, sociology has made me more of a leader. I've come to care a lot less about caring about what other people have because it's grown less important to me. It actually annoys me when my friends care so much about material items and getting everything that they want. I do things the way I want to, regardless of what anybody else does or thinks. In general, I just became aware of how many things tie into affecting my life and who I've become and who I will later on be. So many things have seriously influenced me. Just the other day, while having a conversation with Mr. Salituro, he repeated the idea that what I've been through in life is going to forever influence and shape me. Aside from all this, I learned the values I've been taught and that deviance isn't always bad. All in all, I learned a lot in this class that will help define who I am and how I think. I could go on and on, but this would turn into a long blog. I really enjoyed taking this class and I think I may even want to minor in sociolgoy. I'm the same person as I was in the beginning, just a lot more sociologically mindful.