Please apply your sociological imagination. Support your analysis. Please do not include your personal opinions. (Please be aware how social forces influence and inform your biases and filtered perspectives. Please check your own subjectivities). This assignment is not asking you to take a “position” on the topic. It is not asking you to argue and convince others of a position. It is asking you to explain and analyze the particular topic you’ve chosen from a sociological perspective. As a sociologist, provide a thesis for your essay and offer an analysis of the topic, using the sociological imagination, Using your readings and class materials, please provide a sociological explanation of the topic the film(s) you’ve chosen. Incorporate and apply the sociological concepts and paradigms from lectures, readings, discussions, and class sources. . You are required to demonstrate your full range of sociological knowledge you gained from this class (the readings, the e-lectures, the film clips, etc.)
Please note: minimum work = minimum grade
You will be graded on the following:
1) COMPOSITION: grammar, syntax, spelling, organization
2) CONTENT: information & data
3) CREATIVITY: originality of approach and ideas
4) CRITICAL ANALYSIS: sociological imagination
5) CITATION: sources; references of each textbook, each film clip, online Canvas posts, class lectures/discussion, bibliography/works cited -page.
Please develop the following two essays (below). #1 and #2 are two separate essays. Each essay should be between 4 to 5 pages (a total of about 8 to 10 pages). You may go over 10 pages. Each essay should have at least 5 sources from the class (readings, film clips, optional class meetings, e-lectures, etc.). Please be sure to number each essay to illustrate where one essay ends and the second essay begins. You may use one “works cited page” for both essays.
1. Choose a film (fiction or documentary) that is at least one hour long on one of the following topics: (I chose the movie 13TH on Netflix so you will have to watch it first)
Ia) racism
b) poverty
c) addiction
d). educational inequality
e). LGBTQAI+ issues
f) undocumented immigration
g) patriarchy
h) government mandates
i) vaccinations and public health
j) domestic violence
k) war
l) healthcare
m) social media and cyber bullying
Discuss this film from a “social problems” perspective, applying the sociological imagination and at least one of the three paradigms in sociology we’ve covered in class. Please do not summarize the film. Your paper is a sociological analysis of the one of the topics in the film you chose.
2. Explain the sociological distinction between “social patterns” and “stereotypes.” Choose one of the following topics and explain how being able to understand the difference between “social patterns” and “stereotypes” can help us better understand the topic you’ve selected. Explain how structural conditions can transform people’s lives and their social location within society.
Choose one of the following topics to develop a sociological analysis for this question:
Rapid population growth
Urbanization
Lack of education
Unemployment
Poverty
Gender/Racial discrimination
For the second question
Required Readings:
com/atd-herkimer-soc…”>https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-herkimer-soc… (Links to an external site.)
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-herkimer-soc… (Links to an external site.)
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-herkimer-soc… (Links to an external site.)
com/opioids-universal-experien…”>https://drgabormate.com/opioids-universal-experien…
com/dr-gabor-mate-trauma-underl…”>https://www.thefix.com/dr-gabor-mate-trauma-underl…
Required Video Link:
Dr. Carl Hart: Debunking Drug Myths (Democracy Now)
Required Reading:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/sociology/chapte… (Links to an external site.)
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/sociology/chapte… (Links to an external site.)
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/sociology/chapte… (Links to an external site.)
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/sociology/chapte… (Links to an external site.)
Required Video Links:
The Origins of the American Public Education System: Horace Mann & the Prussian Model of Obedience
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-herkimer-soc… (Links to an external site.)
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-herkimer-soc… (Links to an external site.)
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-herkimer-soc… (Links to an external site.)
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-herkimer-soc… (Links to an external site.)
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-herkimer-soc… (Links to an external site.)
Required Video Links:
Sex & Sexuality: Crash Course Sociology #31
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