2Page Inequalities Of Gender And Age

2Page Inequalities Of Gender And Age

2Page Inequalities Of Gender And Age

Select one article from either the New York Times, Washington Post, or The Atlantic that you have determined to be relevant and appropriate for your Behavioral Analysis. Students are required to select articles published after August 1st, 2016 and the articles should relevant to the textbook chapter 10: Inequalities of Gender and Age. Unlimited access to The Atlantic is free, but the New York Times has a paywall (after 10 articles per month) and the Washington Post requires registration, although evidently allows full access after that. For the New York Times, as an alternative, students should consider obtaining a student “digital subscription” for the duration of the semester (cost is about 1$ a month for students).

The paper itself consists of three sections—Summary, Definition of Concept, and Connection. The instructions for each section are detailed below:

Summary/Abstract

In order to provide the necessary background and context, write a summary, or abstract of the issue, making sure to identify the author of the article, the title, and the specific issue you intend to analyze. The summary must be in the student’s own words (i.e., no quotations from the reading).

Choose and Define One Relevant Sociological Concept or Theory

Drawing from the assigned reading, clearly identify one concept or theory relevant to the issue you have identified in the reading. Accordingly, For the essay, you should draw on concepts or theories from Chapter 10. Remember, as with your choice of readings, there is no “right” or “wrong” concept or theory. Use your “sociological imagination.” However, in selecting a specific concept or theory, first be sure the subject and content of the article will adequately demonstrate the relevance of the specific concept or theory you’ve chosen. Then, once you’ve chosen the concept or theory that you think in some specific way helps explain or deepen our understanding of the behavior under examination, formulate a “collegelevel” definition of the chosen concept or theory. Here, it is required that you incorporate relevant quoted information taken from the course textbook (i.e., direct quotations) into your definition. As a general rule, a sufficient definition is one that a person with no familiarity of the concept or theory would, after reading your definition, have a basic working understanding of what the concept or theory means. It is important to keep in mind that your primary task here is to demonstrate that you, the student, have a firm grasp of what the concept or theory actually means.

The textbook will be attached, reading the Chapter 10 only

Explain the Connection

Explain the connection between the concept or theory and the issue you’ve identified in the article. Your objective here is to show exactly how relevant information—including at least one quoted example or passage—taken from the reading is logically related to your chosen sociological concept or theory. Bear in mind that the material quoted from the article constitutes your “evidence” that there is a plausible, logical connection between the concept or theory and the specific pattern of behavior you’ve identified. Here, your primary task is to demonstrate how the concept or theory either deepens our understanding, or helps explain, the specific behavior described in the article. Bear in mind that the connection should never be thought to be obvious or self-evident. To establish a logical connection will always require detailed explanation.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

• The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.