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The article Leaving Home for College addresses a unique point in a college student's life where they leave "the family" and enter a space where they have more control in changing, maintaining, and introducing new identities. Choose at least two of the following questions to answer:

1. Although you might not fit the demographics of the "traditional 4-year college student" studied in this article, do you have any experiences in redefining your sense of self (your identity) when entering college? Specifically, what parts of your identity have you shed? Which ones have you embraced?

2. How might managing your identity be different as an online student versus a student in a traditional face-to-face class?

3. What role does the institution of education play in socialization? The different sociological perspectives (functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interaction) have different answers to this question. Choose one perspective and answer this question.

Second: Utilize Chapter 4 and the reader article to discuss what you have learned about the lifelong process of socialization and how this relates to one your classmate's answers regarding identity and socialization within education.