can anyone helpme with this essay question?

if biography is about individuals what can it tell us about society? discuss using an example from your own life?

thanks guys

How about you look up what they mean and start there.

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Hey guys sorry i was in a bit of a rush my cat was annoying me

My name is Matthew, i do Pyschology at caledonian university in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Are we talking about the what the biography itself can tell us or the fact we DO biographys?

I think it's about the biography itself, what can biographies tell us about the society that person lives in?

Plus an example from my own life? This question is so vague!!


ta

Well a biography isnt about one person, its about one persons life so therefore it includes lots of people, lots of people means a society, but it will be from one perspective only, if a paroniod person was to right a biography it would be out of perspective.
I think you should read a couple of biographies and take some examples from there as for your own life... unless you have your own biography i dont know how it could help

"... Because of the unique terms which exist between author and reader, we associate with sinners not less than with saints, and are unburdened by a sense of responsibility for their acts.

In daily life few of us, happily, come face to face with perverts and criminals; but through biography we can, if we will, measure the limits of human nature on its dark side in the careers of such colossal reprobates as C?sar Borgia and his father; or monsters of cruelty like Ezzelino and Alva; or traitors, spies, and informers, from Judas to Benedict Arnold and Azeff; or of swindlers and more common scoundrels, George Law and Cagliostro and latter-day ?promoters,? and that peculiarly offensive brood?the pious impostors.

In the long run, however, we make our lasting friends among those who are normal but not commonplace, who seem to carry our own better traits to a degree of perfection which we have not attained, or who have qualities which we lack but envy. Unlikeness also is often a potent element of charm."

https://www.bartleby.com/60/151.html

The rest is up to you. Think about the question, and relate it to day to day events.

Welcome to TFS, btw... even if it were just for this question.

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Well sociologists, in particular functionalists, say that society is made up of many different "functions". For example education, health, religion, the media etc. And if one of these functions breaks down then so does all of society. This is an automony{sp?} theory because it works the same as a body. All of the main parts (Heart, lungs etc) need to be working properly for the body to function correctly as a whole, therefore the same as society.

That's the basics of what I think the question's asking but let me know! I think I've got an essay question from A-Level on my comp!