Intro to Sociology Assignment paper
Attached is a PDF document for printing purposes. Soci 1301 021 IN & Soci 1301 022 IN Assignment Paper #1-CT (Critical Thinking Paper) Assignment One will require you to observe an individual or group of people whose culture is different from your own. You may observe the individual or group that you selected at your job or work, at church, at school, or at an event that you have attended or will attend. Events are interesting because they allow you to obtain a close up view of the culture that you are observing. You may draw from past or personal experiences or interactions with a different culture. The purpose of observing an individual or a group is to describe and explain the individual’s or group’s culture. Culture provides the foundation or blueprint of society. It is also the glue that holds society together and culture also provides the foundation of human behavior in society. In observing an individual or a group, please make sure that your paper or writings cover the following bulleted points: • symbols, beliefs, values, special practices, norms, and material goods of the individual or group that is being observed • ethnic, racial, gender, age, religion, and social class of the individual or group that is being observed • cultural elements of the individual or group that serve as important functions for society • contributions of the individual or group’s culture to society • subculture or counterculture elements of the individual’s or group’s culture • culture shock, cultural relativism, and ethnocentrism experiences with the individual’s or group’s culture •Explain which theoretical perspective (structural-functionalist, symbolic- interactionist, conflict, and feminist) can be used to best describe the culture of the individual or group that you selected. Please make sure to read the documents on culture in the Web Links section in your Blackboard course, to argue the appropriate or relevant theoretical perspective that can be used to explain the culture of the individual or group that you selected. Here are the sources that can be found in Assignment Paper #1’s folder in the Web Links section in Blackboard: Illinois Valley Community College Chapter Four –Society (this source includes theoretical or sociological explanations of culture-by founding sociologists). Lumen Learning (Theoretical Perspectives on culture, Module 2, Culture and Society).Retrieved from https://courses.lumenlearning.com/alamo-sociology/chapter/outcome-theoretical-perspectiveson-society/ Miner, Horace. 1956. “Body Ritual among the Nacirema.”American Anthropologist 58(3):503-7 (Symbolic-Interactionist explanation on the importance of rituals). Ethnocentrism: A basic methodology for understanding others’ and our own ethnic behaviors. (2018, September 29). Retrieved from http://www.iupui.edu/~anthkb/ethnocen.htm Assignment paper #1 must be typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font, 12-point font size, and at least five pages in length (excluding the reference page). Please submit your paper as a Word document using APA writing style. Your APA formatted paper should include a cover page, an abstract, an introduction, review of literature, discussion, and a conclusion. Please make sure to review the APA template or sample APA paper in assignment #1’s folder in the web links section of the course. You should also provide a reference page. Critical thinking section: 50 points Critical thinking section period to submit: July 15, 2019 at 8:00 AM to July 28, 2019 at 11:59 PM. No late assignments will be accepted. Please review my late work policy in the course Syllabus.
