Intro to Human Society—Sociology of My Name My name:ROSLYN ELLIS

Complete a 2-3 page sociological analysis of your name, looking at how your naming may have been impacted by culture, gender, and time period. All instructions are attached, please see details included. See RUBRICS scoring guide , shooting for distinguished column please.

This assessment requires you to do some research on my name. How popular was my name when you were born? What does your my mean? Based on what you learned from your research, discuss my own name. How is something as simple as a name shaped by the social world around us? How has my name been impacted by time period, culture, your gender, et cetera? How might my name be different if you had been born one hundred years earlier? Why?