Finals should be at least three pages, double-spaced, 12 point, Times New Roman font with one-inch margins
In this paper, you will describe your learning experience with at least three topics from the class(outlined below). For each topic you choose to discuss, please address the following:
What you knew about the topic before the class, including assumptions or preconceptions you had about the topic (what did you think before?)
To get you thinking about what to include, you might consider asking yourself the following questions: When I pictured this before, what did I think about? How did that image capture socially-constructed ideas about the topic? If someone had asked me to describe this before the class, how would I have answered them?
Your experience learning about the topic—what surprised you, what is something you learned that week that you did not know, and what affirmed what you already know? What did you find easy about the topic, and what did you find difficult?
How you now view social practices or institutions in your social world.
To get you thinking about what to include, you might consider asking yourself the following questions: How have my assumptions (from #1 above) changed after taking the course, and how would I describe the topic to others now? What people or experiences in my everyday life did this teach me something new about, or that I saw in a new way?
What is important for others to know about the topic
To get you thinking about what to include, you might consider asking yourself the following questions: What is one thing that stayed with me about the topic that I feel the need to share with others? If I were giving a “Sociology Crash Course” and had only one minute to describe this particular topic, what would I need to say? What am I not sure my peers really understood about the topic? What should we have discussed that we did not?
Some of these topics can get personal. For example, you may have personal experience either working in or being a long-time visitor to a healthcare facility due to a parent’s illness, or you might have a cousin who has been incarcerated. You might think about your race, gender, or social class on a daily basis, or you may never have been conscious of these identities until we covered them in class. Both sets of experiences are perfectly appropriate for narrating in this assignment. You should not feel obligated to write about experiences that you find personally painful to discuss. Rather, you are welcome to approach this assignment and speak to whichever topics resonated with you, interested you, or challenged you.
Possible topics you may write on from the class include the following:
(you do not have to answer the accompanying question—that’s just to further illustrate the topic as it relates to the social world)
Culture and Media – How do we portray and make sense of the world around us?
Socialization and the Construction of Reality – How do we develop our norms and habits?
Groups and Networks – How do we connect with one another?
Social Control and Deviance – How do we maintain social control?
Stratification – How do we create systems that perpetuate inequality?
Research Methods – How do we study the social world?
Gender – What is gender, and how do we know?
Race/Ethnicity – What is race, and how do we know?
Poverty – What makes poverty a social status?
Health and Society – How are aspects of health socially constructed?
Family – How are family structures a product of our social worlds?
Education – How does education function for social reproduction or social mobility?
Capitalism and the Economy – On what assumptions do we build our economic lives?
Authority and the State – How is authority socially constructed?
Religion – How does religion provide social structure?
Collective Action, Social Movements, and Social Change – How are social movements social phenomena?
Possible points
20 – Student does this for three topics, with detail, including an illustration of their prior understanding for at least one.
Experience Learning:Student describes their experience learning about the topic.
10 – Student does this for one topic.
12 – Student does this for two topics.
14 – Student does this for three topics.
16 – Student does this for two topics, with detail.
18 – Student does this for three topics, with detail.
20 – Student does this for three topics, with detail, including an illustration of their learning process for at least one.
New Insights:Student describes how they see the social world now, given their learning.
10 – Student does this for one topic.
12 – Student does this for two topics.
14 – Student does this for three topics.
16 – Student does this for two topics, with detail.
18 – Student does this for three topics, with detail.
20 – Student does this for three topics, with detail, including an illustration of their new insight for at least one.
Teaching:Student describes what it is important for others to know about the topic.
10 – Student does this for one topic.
12 – Student does this for two topics.
14 – Student does this for three topics.
16 – Student does this for two topics, with detail.
18 – Student does this for three topics, with detail.
20 – Student does this for three topics, with detail, including an illustration of their teaching recommendation for at least one
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