Please remember that the field notes should be attached with your Week 7 paper, and the 3-to-4-page double-spaced paper is in addition to the page or pages of the field notes.
Assignment Instructions
Why do so many researchers still treat race as a scientific concept? For your assignment this week, you will ask respondents about their definitions or understandings of race. In this article, an anthropologist asked scientists, too, for their definitions of race:
https://slate.com/technology/2019/05/race-science-angela-saini-new-book-superior-deconstructed.htmlLinks to an external site.
For this research assignment and paper, you will first survey 20 adult people of your choosing to ask them about their attitudes about race. Do not survey or interview children, inmates, or anyone else who cannot give legal or voluntary consent.
Please tell your adult respondents that you are completing a research project and paper for your online Cultural Anthropology course on people’s understandings of, and attitudes about, race.
Important: Your respondents must remain anonymous. To maintain their confidentiality, in your field notes, you must codify them and not list their names. You may number each subject or use initials instead, but no first or last names should be included.
Explain no more. If respondents do not understand any of the five questions, please ask them to simply answer to the best of their ability and understanding, and explain that you are unable to discuss the question any further, according to assignment requirements.
Ask each of the 20 people the following 5 questions, and no more, and record their responses in your field notes, which you will submit with your paper:
1) How many races are there?
2) What are those races? (Please list them.)
3) What is your race?
4) What is your gender?
5) What is your age?
Then, in a 3-to-4 page double-spaced paper, in Times New Roman 12 point font, no longer and no shorter, explain your results.
Do you observe any patterns of responses based on respondents’ cultures, sub-cultures, or any particular socioeconomic background?
What about gender?
What about age?
Do people of particular age groups respond in a similar way?
Why do you think you observed the responses that you did?
How do the responses compare to the anthropological understanding of race, or to what you have learned in this course in the weekly lessons or in the textbook?
Be sure to include quotations or paraphrases from the textbook and/or weekly lesson and parenthetical in-text citations to support your points in the paper.
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Rubric
Week 7: Race and Attitude_ANT300
Week 7: Race and Attitude_ANT300
Criteria Ratings Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeObservations (25%)
Submission includes detailed field notes and explanation of the surveys on attitudes about race of 20 respondents.
25 pts
Exemplary (25%)
Meets all guidelines with no errors.
20 pts
Accomplished (20%)
Meets all guidelines; contains minor errors
18 pts
Acceptable (18%)
Meets some of the guidelines; contains major errors.
15 pts
Inadequate (15%)
Does not meet the guideline
0 pts
No Submission
25 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAnalysis (50%)
Paraphrases or quotations from the textbook or weekly lesson are included to support points. Results of the survey of 20 respondents are explained and analyzed. Potential patterns of results, or lack of patterns, are analyzed. Results are compared to the anthropological understanding of race
50 pts
Exemplary (50%)
Meets all guidelines with no errors.
45 pts
Accomplished (45%)
Meets all guidelines; contains minor errors
35 pts
Acceptable (35%)
Meets some of the guidelines; contains major errors.
30 pts
Inadequate (30%)
Does not meet the guideline
0 pts
No Submission
50 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAPA (15%)
Assigned number of sources are included in the submission.
Research cited is credible, scholarly, recent, and relevant.
Citations (both full and in-text) are in standard APA formatting, both within the body of the paper, and in a clear and corresponding full-citation on a separate references page.
15 pts
Exemplary (15%)
Meets all guidelines with no errors.
13 pts
Accomplished (13%)
Meets all guidelines; contains minor errors
10 pts
Acceptable (10%)
Meets some of the guidelines; contains major errors.
5 pts
Inadequate (5%)
Does not meet the guideline
0 pts
No Submission
15 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeFormatting (10%)
Submission meets length requirement.
Submission is in standard APA formatting (Times New Roman, 12 pt font, double-spaced, 1-inch margins)
10 pts
Exemplary (10%)
Meets all guidelines with no errors.
8 pts
Accomplished (8%)
Meets all guidelines; contains minor errors
6 pts
Acceptable (6%)
Meets some of the guidelines; contains major errors.
4 pts
Inadequate (4%)
Does not meet the guideline
0 pts
No Submission
10 pts
Total Points: 100
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