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You will be required to write an essay between 4 to 5 pages (you may go over 5 pages) on a topic and prompt provided by Dr. TWL.
Due: April April 14th (Extended due to Dr. TWL’s absence on 3/14/2024)
You. may submit your paper late but every day that your paper is late, you will be deducted 5 points. If you submit your paper early and it is graded, you may not resubmit your essay. Please make sure you are incorporating class materials/readings from Weeks #1, #2, #3 #4, #5, #6 & #7.
CANVAS does not calculate your grade. Please do not base your final course grade on CANVAS. The grade breakdown is on the syllabus. This mid-term assignment is worth 20% of your total course grad. Please be cognizant that any percentage over 25% and essays that show more than 5% of AI usage are subject to deduction of points. Source citations are critical. Please see Dr. TWL if your “unoriginal percentage” exceeds 25% and 5% for AI detection.
Pre-grading & Grading Criteria:
One of the ways we learn is to make mistakes, figure out how we can improve. The only way to get better at something is to keep learning from our mistakes, correcting them, editing them, polishing them, improving them, and keeping at it. Writing is a skill. Anyone can learn this skill. It is easier for some and harder for others. It requires doing it over and over. Professor TWL will not pre-grade. In other words, Prof. TWL will not look over your drafts. When you turn in your paper, you will earn your grade. Please look at what area needs more attention and improve for your next assignments.
We may not have time during class period to cover all materials. (Students should be aware of this during class). Students are responsible for all readings materials, class lectures, and CANVAS course materials.
All writing assignments will be graded based on the following”
1) COMPOSITION (20 points): grammar, syntax, spelling, organization
2) CONTENT (20 points) : information & data
3) CREATIVITY (20 points) : originality of approach and ideas
4) CRITICAL ANALYSIS (20 points): sociological imagination
5) CITATION (20 points) : sources; references of each textbook, each film clip, online Canvas posts, class lectures/discussion, bibliography/works cited -page, and all Canvas materials: syllabus, assignments, discussions, and announcements sections) Outside readings and sources are always welcome. However, students are being evaluated for how well you understand the class materials and class content. Students will be graded according to their demonstrated knowledge of the class materials and class content.
Instructions: Your essay should be between 4 to 5 pages, typed, double-spaced, times 12-font. (You may go over 5 pages). You should include both in-text citatioins and a “works cited” or “bibliography” page. The title page and “works cited” (or bibliography) page are not part of the 4 to 5 pages of content per question. Please upload one document (if possible) in doc., docx. or pdf form.
Prompt:
Sociology 4 is “how to do sociology.” What makes sociology a science? Explain how sociological inquiry and analysis are a scientific process. What scientific traditions are sociological analysis part of? How do the critical thinking tools and sociological paradigms help to enhance the scientific process in sociology? You will need to develop a thesis and narrative. Support your thesis with course materials and examples. Refer to a study from the readings or mentioned during class.
Incorporate into your essay, the following concepts: sociological imagination, empiricism, positivism, structural functionalism, social conflict theory, symbolic interaction, epistemology, methodology, inquiry, social patterns, hypothesis, research steps, variables, idiographic and nomothetic explanations, inductive and deductive approaches, quantitative and qualitative methods,
methodology, inquiry, social patterns, hypothesis, research steps, variables, idiographic and nomothetic explanations, inductive and deductive approaches, quantitative and qualitative methods, levels of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio), conceptualization, and operationalization.
I willl later be uploading materials from the course.