Step 1 (Posts) due by 11:59pm on Th., Feb. 1 || Step 2 (Responses) due by 11:59p

Step 1 (Posts) due by 11:59pm on Th., Feb. 1 || Step 2 (Responses) due by 11:59pm on Sun. Feb. 4 (Week 1)

You were assigned to read “The Promise,” by C. Wright Mills. On this discussion board, you will discuss that reading.

Step 1: Your Post

This step is worth 5 points.

Scroll down to click the “Reply” button. You will then see a text box, where you will write your answers to the following questions. After you have finished typing your answers, click “Post Reply” (the blue box on the bottom right corner of the text box). If you need more help on how to reply to the professor’s questions on a discussion board, click hereLinks to an external site..

The following questions are based on “The Promise,” which you had to read for this week 2 (click the link at the top to return to that reading).

“The Promise” is a portion of the book The Sociological Imagination, which C. Wright Mills wrote in 1959. Because of this, many first-time readers struggle understanding it — I definitely did when I read it for the first (and even second) time! Reading sociological material is new for us at this level, and we should embrace struggling with the content — after all, that is an important part of the learning process. Knowing this, please answer the following questions as honestly and as best as you can, without being concerned with having the “perfect” or “correct” answer. Just do the best you can, being sure to provide the details requested in each question. These questions are intended to get you to work through the reading in order to eventually understand it, rather than to know the “everything” now.

1. Identify at least 2 sentences in the reading that you think best captures the purpose of this reading and in at least 1 sentence tell us why you selected those sentences. Please be sure to write the sentences you select in quotation marks (” “) and tell us what page(s) they are on so we can reference them.
2. This week you also read the “What is Sociology” section in the Introduction chapter of A Sociology Experiment. How do you think this reading “The Promise” connects to that “What is Sociology” section you read last week? In your answer, you should provide specific details from both the “What is Sociology” section and from “The Promise” reading along with the page numbers those details come from in each reading. Put the page numbers and title of the reading in parentheses at the end of the detail you discuss. “Details” are things like examples, terms, and explanations that appear in the readings. I encourage you to write in your own words. You may find it helpful to use the exact phrasing from either writing but, in such cases, you must put the writing in quotation marks (” “) and then follow up the quote with an explanation of what it is saying in your own words.
3. What is one question you have for your classmates about this assigned reading “The Promise”?
4. Sign your post with the name you go by in this class.

After you have posted your reply to the questions in Step 1 you will see your classmates’ posts.. You are then ready to do Step 2.

Step 2: Respond to Your Classmates

This step is worth 5 points.

Circle back to this discussion board and read through your classmates’ answers to Step 1.

Respond to at least 2 of your classmates by doing the following:

• Respond to classmates that do not already have a lot of responses.
• Start your response to your classmate with their name
• In at least 3 sentences, answer: What do you think about your classmates’ answers to the questions in Step 1? For example, did they seem to understand the reading as you did, or did they seem to have different understandings and how so? Did they write anything that helped you better understand the reading? Is there anything you can add to what they wrote in order to better help them understand the reading?
• Answer the question your classmate asked for #5 in Step 1

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Grading

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To access the rubric for this discussion board, select the “more” icon (the vertical line of 3 dots) in the upper right hand corner of this page. You will see in this rubric the criteria and score level for each criteria.

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