How Society Shapes Your Decision for College

Peter Berger refers to the sociological perspective as sightedness the general in the particular, meaning sociology helps one see the general patterns in particular state. Well we all know that society can run our excerptions in life, whether it be the jeans you buy, the food you eat or the path you lead for your future, society al airs has a say in it even if it isnt welcomed. My choice to go to college wasnt much of a choice, as far back as I can remember my parents and teachers alike were constantly grooming me for exams and tests and everything I would need to mend reliable into and succeed at whatever higher(prenominal) institution I chose.Not that this was a bad thing at all, Im more than grateful for all of it considering without it I would not be where I am today. The point is, society embeds in your mind that the only way to be successful in todays business world is to go to college, get a degree, and then search for a desk to sit behind for the greater part of the re mainder of your life. If that wasnt encouragement enough to keep my grades high and my sights educate even higher, looking around at the other students at my coach certainly did it for me.I told myself that I would not allow myself to slip and come in into the pattern that all the others around me had or soon would. I was destined and determined to get out of that school, out of my homet induce, and away from any ostracise people or negative energy those people might be harboring. So the easy part was done, my choice had been made, but now the boastfully question What university do I choose? Being from a spirit income family in Texas I knew I wasnt going to at hug drugd any ivy League Institution, but I still wanted to go to an surprise University without bankrupting my parents of course.When I looked at my parents, along with other parents who were equally successful in their careers I noticed they had all gone to Big 12 schools. Again, keeping my parents bank accounts in mind I decided it would be the wisest last to choose a Big 12 University that was still in Texas to stay off the $30,000 + fee for out of state tuition. Based on my major and who had accepted me so far I had it narrowed down to my top one-third universities Texas A&M, University of Texas, and good ol Texas technical school University.The deciding factor was that Texas Tech and the University of Texas were the only two schools with their own college of communication, but Texas Tech came out on top as the only University in Texas that offered advertising as its own major in its own college. It also didnt hurt that all the people I had grown to dislike from my hometown, if they were even graduating, were going on to UT or A&M, so the fact that Texas Tech was ten hours away from home was just the cherry on top.