Social refers to rules, laws, etc. in place to govern all cultures:What does the literary work suggest about the experience of groups of people who have been ignored, underrepresented, or misrepresented by traditional history?

Social refers to rules, laws, etc. in place to govern all cultures. (This does not imply that all cultures agree, believe in, or adhere to social rules, etc.).

In what level in the social order was the writer raised? How did an economic and/or social situation affect him or her?

At what level in the social order did the writer want to be?
From what level in the social pecking order did the writer’s friends come? How were they employed?

How powerful was the writer socially?

What concerned the writer about society? What did he or she do about it?

What type of person was the writer in his or her society?

What does the literary work suggest about the experience of groups of people who have been ignored, underrepresented, or misrepresented by traditional history (for example, laborers, prisoners, women, people of color, lesbians and gay men, children, the insane, and so on)?

Keep in mind that new historical and cultural criticism usually include attention to the intersection of the literary work with nonliterary discourses prevalent in the culture in which the work emerged and/or in the cultures in which it has been interpreted and often focus on such issues as the circulation of power and the dynamics of personal and group identity

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