Course Materials
Choose your topic by Monday. Read and watch materials and submit assignment by Sunday. There is no quiz this week. Email me by Monday, April 22 if you need a different source.
Required Materials
Handouts: Whats in a sociology journal article Handout-1.pdf, This handout explains parts of a journal article. It is helpful to read before you attempt at summarizing a journal article.
Empirical Evidence Recorded Lecture
It is important for you to understand empirical evidence, as I require you to identify the empirical evidence in your chosen scholarly source. In this video I provide a definition of empirical evidence, provide examples and discuss how personal experiences and personal opinions are not considered empirical evidence.
Sociological Sources to Choose from
You can find your own research or choose one sociological research source below to summarize. You need to read or listen to one source below that is labeled sociology research. Additional sources are provided that present similar information on the topic in a different format. If you want to research a topic not listed here and want me to provide an approved source, please email me by Monday. Using a non-approved source will result in a failing grade.
Housing
Sociology Research: Housing First Public Policy Brief
Sociology Research: Behind Gentrification’s Gloss article
Diversity, equity and inclusion
Sociology Research: Voices of Diversity Report
Sociology Research: Hollywood Diversity Report 2021
Gun violence in schools
Sociology Article: School Lockdown procedures and Gun Violence
Sociology Research: Sociology of US Gun Culture
Sociology Research: Link Between Gun Possession and Gun Assault
Technologies
Sociology Research: Use of Twitter Hashtags
Sociology Research: Gamergate and Violence Against Women
Transgender community/individuals
Sociology Research: Encyclopedia of Transgender people and rights Stryker
Sociology Reading: Transgender Feminism
Sociology Reading: 10 things Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Youth Want their Doctors to Know
Topic: Hidden Curriculum: Race, Gender and Social Class.
The hidden curriculum consists of all the informal and unwritten norms that serve to control and guide the student. These norms can relate to social class, gender, and race, among other cultural and economic factors.
Sociology Research on Race: Hidden Curriculum Learning and Unlearning Racial Prejudice The Role of Schools.pdf
Sociology Research on Social Class: Calacro Class-based cultures reading 2014.pdf The hidden curriculum here would be “appropriate” behavior in the classroom, which is taught by parents and varies based on social class. Further resources on this topic under Educational Research: Helicopter parents and Homework
Sociology Research on Gender: Hidden curriculum and gender sociological perspectives.pdf
Topic: Inequality in Women’s Sports
Sociology research: Pfister Women and football aka soccer 2015.pdf
Sociology research: Cooky Womens SPorts after Title Ix.pdf
Sociology research: Spaaij Sports and Social Inequalities 2015.pdf
Additional Source: This source provides various perspectives, data and social context on the impacts of wage gap in sports. It cites other sources and provides empirical data, which makes it a reliable source that provides required information for the Research Week assignment. Lewis, Nate. 2020. ““For the love of the game”: The gendered pay gap in professional hockey” Retrieved April 13, 2021. CanucksArmy (https://canucksarmy.com/2020/12/30/for-love-game-gendered-pay-gap-hockey/).
Important Context and Topics: Title IX and it’s affects on women’s participation in sports, statistical data on wages and inequality, low pay’s dual impacts of financial and symbolic under-appreciation
Topic: College Admissions and Affirmative Action
Sociology research: College Admission process pages 185-203.pdf
Additional Source: Affirmative Action: Crash Course Government and Politics #32 YouTube video
Topic: Educational Research: Helicopter parents and Homework
Sociology research: Integrated Schools Podcast listen and read transcript here: https://integratedschools.simplecast.com/episodes/calarco/transcript
Sociology research (Article mentioned in podcast): Calacro Class-based cultures reading 2014-1.pdf
Additional Source: SOCI 101 Calarco’s Study and findings recorded lecture. I review the findings and purpose of the article in this recorded lecture.
Topic: Nuclear Family and Marriage rates
Sociology Research: Family Structures Throughout History lecture YouTube Video
Sociology Research: Functionalism and Family lecture YouTube Video
Sociology Research: Coontz the radical idea of marrying for love.pdf Article
Additional Source: “I don’t”: More millenials delaying or avoiding marriage YouTube video
Topic: COVID-19 and Inequalities
Sociology Research: Landivar COVID 19 and gender Socius article 2020.pdf
Sociology Research: How COVID-19 Sent Women’s Workforce Progress Backward online article
Additional Source: NPR has a series on Corona virus: https://www.npr.org/series/812054919/the-coronavirus-crisis
Additional Source: Why Racism, Not Race, Is a Risk Factor for Dying of COVID-19
Additional Source: Essay9_Tackling-the-inequality-pandemic.pdf
Additional Source: Filipinos make up 4% of nurses in the US, but 31.5% of nurse deaths from COVID-19
Topic: Barriers to Mental Health care
Sociology research: Ojeda et al Psychosocial Barriers to Mental Health study 2008.pdf
Sociology research: Conner Barriers to treatment and culturally endorsed coping strategies 2010.pdf
Additional Source: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/reports/2020/05/07/484742/health-disparities-race-ethnicity/
Social Problem Assignment: Research Topic
Purpose: Assignments fulfill two course goals:
application of sociological perspectives to the empirical world
the effective written communication of scientific arguments. In science we use evidence and details to describe reality. We avoid opinions, logical fallacies, and value judgements in the arguments.
Instructions
It is possible to receive either partial or no points based upon the quality of your questions and responses. Each task in this social problem discussion assignment has points. You will be graded on your ability to complete each task.
Successful Assignments will:
respond to all elements of the prompt
explain and apply course materials and bold concepts.
be from a sociological perspective, meaning opinions, logical fallacies, and value judgements are avoided
Submit essays as one of following files types: .txt, .rtf, .doc, .docx, .pdf. All file submissions need to be compatible with Turnitin.
Format: Write an essay (600-700 words). 600 words is a minimum word count requirements so submitting an essay with less words will result in a grade deduction. 600 words is a minimum word count requirement. Direct quotations will not be considered as part of the minimum word count. Direct quotations need to be kept to a maximum of two sentences. Questions you are answering, title of the assignment, and reference pages are not considered as part of the word count minimum. Direct quotations need to be kept to a maximum of two or more sentences. Please list the word count, without quotations or other writing, at the start of the document.
Per the syllabus policies ALL ASSIGNMENTS will be reviewed for plagiarism and AI writing.
Writing Style: Academic and Analytical. Analytical means you are using scientific arguments, evidence, and measurable concepts to discuss your topic from a sociological perspective. This means including your opinion will not count towards the required word count. This writing style means you rely on summarizing the information from the documentary or chapter you choose to review this week. Paraphrasing, meaning summarizing the author’s arguments in your own words, is required. See the handouts below for more information. It is clear you are summarizing course materials because you use in-text citation phrases.
Information on Paraphrasing.pdf
Information on Direct Quotes.pdf
ASA Citations.docx.
Required Citations to Sources (The phrases below are formal citations). You NEED TO reference course materials every assignment and use a phrase below. No reference page is required.
Prompt Requirements
You choose a source from Research Week Materials page. You summarize the source and it’s empirical evidence for this assignment.
Submit an essay 600-700 words that summarizes the findings of your scholarly source in detail. The findings should be described in details. The data, measurable scientific concepts, and additional empirical evidence from the source should be clearly identified in your writing. You will be graded on your detailed writing and ability to write using a sociological perspective.
Required Citation Phrases
Recorded lectures or class discussions
Format: According to the lecture [enter title of lecture found on title slide], …[finish statement].
According to Bridges and Pascoe (2016), …. [finish statement].
According to Wade and Ferree (2015),… [finish statement]. This is the citation phrase for the Gender and Sexuality chapter.
Readings or Chapters
Formats: According to author last Name (Year of publication), …
I learned [enter information here] from [title or reading].
According to Bridges and Pascoe (2016), …. [finish statement].
According to Wade and Ferree (2015),… [finish statement]. This is the citation phrase for the Gender and Sexuality chapter.
Documentary
Format: According to [enter video title and channel title] (Year of Publication), …[finish statement].
According to Makers: Women Who Make America, Season 1 (2013), …[finish statement].
Direct quotations (wording copied from reading or video) should be used in moderation. Assignments that are 150-200 words can have one quotation. Assignments that are 250-800 words may use two quotations that are a maximum length of 2 sentences. Quotations need to have quote marks (“ “) around them indicating it is not your writing and include page numbers if you are referencing a reading. Quotations need to be at most a sentence.
Example: According to Alexander, “direct quotation here” (2012:Page number). You replace the words page number with the page number for written work.
