Personal Narrative: My Elements Of Social Location

We as a society live in different whirlwinds of social locations defined by our race, gender, social class, age, ability, religion, etc. This spectrum of elements has a strong influence on the way that we behave and the way we view ourselves. When it comes to my elements of social location, I’m an 18 year old Caucasian girl just entering college coming from a middle-class family. I’m essentially aware of how my gender affects the way I both behave and see myself. Some societies still have the stereotype that women are inferior to men due to the fact that we get hormonal quite often and we are generally smaller in body structure. I feel as if I subconsciously view myself subordinate as compared to a male because of how us women are sometimes considered weak. Because of this negative perspective of myself, I sometimes lack confidence in social
Now being in college, I can see that I have the ability to achieve my goals in the world of education. With that being said, my self-image that this feeds is an image of me going in the right direction and being able to go far in life. Working hard to succeed is the way I’m behaviorally affected by my educational background. If this segment of my social location were to be different, as in not graduating from high school, I probably wouldn’t have nearly the amount of self-worth that I have now in college. My self-esteem would be lowered and I probably wouldn’t have any clear direction of what I want to do as a career. With being middle class my self-concept is quite content financially. I feel as if in a stable place at this time. Behaviorally, I don’t feel entitled to anyone or anything, and I am grateful for what I have. Although I’m grateful, sometimes greed does take its toll on me. If this class element were to change and I was in a substantially lower class, it would probably conduct me into becoming grateful to a further