Select a social issue that is of interest to you and analyze the issue using the weekly readings or outside scholarly sources. You must define the social issue, why it is important to you, how it relates to class themes and concepts, and how the course themes. Ensure you are focusing on a specific social issue as this will make sure your assignment is in depth and concise. For example, you can examine the school-to-prison-pipeline, how it takes place, why it takes place, the ramifications of this process, and how social theory can help to shed light/resolve/solve this issue. Or the process of gender inequality in the workplace and discuss the motherhood penalty and fatherhood bonus throughout your paper.
You must use APA or ASA formatting. The final paper must be between 5 pages in length, double spaced, 12 font and Times Roman and the following:
All sources must be cited properly with in-text citations and on the reference page as well.
At least two peer-reviewed journal article sources that support your analysis of the social issue.
At least one of the theories that were covered.
Explain how the issue/topic affects a minority group.
Ensure that you focus on at least one specific example that supports the bigger social issue or topic.
FROM RECEPIENT—Paper topic is about immigration, about the social theories- conflict theory, structural functionalism and symbolic interactionism.
I don’t want this paper to stand out or be generated by AI not too many fancy words,
Modules we covered in class- Culture, socialization( primary, secondary groups) deviances, crime, race and ethnicity, social stratification and global inequality, gender and sex, relationships, marriage and family, education, governments and politics, health and medicine, population urbanization and environment
