Societal Influences In My Life

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As individuals, we all have many societal influences in our lives that help shape us into who we are today. Sometimes we have some influences that we don’t even realize are actual influences in our everyday lives, and we don’t take into consideration that they do anything for us. The three main societal influences that I think are prominent in my life are family life, the importance of education, and work experience. These three plus many others have helped blossom me into the person I am today.

My first societal influence on my life is my family. My parents taught my brother and I how to speak and act respectively towards others. I will definitely be teaching my children this as well because I think it is a very important skill to have. You
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I have gone through 16 years of school from kindergarten to college. Education is such a substantial part of my life. If I didn’t go to school I wouldn’t have learned the basics of education like learning how to read and write, or things more into the complex subjects like chemistry or sociology. I hope my children will enjoy school and apply themselves as much as I do because education is so important for everyday life. Another reason I believe education is so crucial is because of the social aspect of it. Going to school helped me learn how to build relationships with other people other than the family that I see everyday. It also helped me learn the difference in talking to an authority figure and a close friend. My final reason that I believe education is so necessary is because my probability of getting a good job without a good education is very slim. Not very many places would hire me for a job that I don’t have the college/university credits for, and a very small portion of places will even consider hiring me without a high school diploma or an equivalent to one. Getting a proper education is so important for everyday life and it is something we shouldn’t take for granted that many people …show more content…
I believe that family life, the importance of education, and work experience are my biggest societal influences in my life because they are the most important to me and I have learned a lot from all three. I will absolutely be taking most of the things that I have learned in my societal influences over the years and teaching them to my children. I think it’s a great idea to sit back, and pinpoint and examine the main societal influences in your own life to be able to give recognition and appreciativeness to those who deserve

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