Social Factors
As the sphere of influence upon us widens, new elements from our community, social structure, and mass culture have a greater impact on us. Our added experience in the social world can either stimulate, deter, or deprive us of our growth. Experience becomes the meaning-maker in our lives. Our own experience of the world around us can also have a major impact on who we become.
- Did you feel nurtured, supported, or encouraged, as a child?
- Did you get along with your family members?
- Brothers?
- Sisters?
- What were some of your struggles as a child?
- What would you pick out as the most significant event in your life up to age 12?
- Do you think you had a happy childhood?
- What childhood friendships were most important to you?
- What was (is) being a teenager like?
- What pressures did you feel as a teenager, and where did they come from?
- What did you do for fun, or entertainment?
- What was the most trouble you were ever in as a teenager?
- What was the most significant event in your teenage years?
- What was your first experience leaving home like?
- What special people have you known in your life?
- Who shaped and influenced your life the most?
- Who are the heroes and heroines, guides and helpers in your life?
- What social pressures have you experienced as an adult?
- Were you in the military?
- What was this experience like?
- Is a sense of community important to you?
