Assignment
Assignment: Rough Draft Essay Worksheet
Note: You may begin this Essay Worksheet after completing Unit 3.
What roles do social institutions play in your life? In society as a whole? For this assignment, you will evaluate each of the three sociological perspectives (functionalist, conflict, and symbolic interactionism) on social institutions.
To prepare for this Rough Draft Essay Worksheet:
- Read the articles and complete the Interactive Units referenced above.
- Review the three major theoretical perspectives: functionalist, conflict, and interactionist.
- Review social institutions and select a specific social institution to analyze.
- Reflect on your relationship to social institutions and how that might affect your perspective on them.
- Review the Final Essay requirements and rubric, as this Worksheet is designed to help you better understand the three sociological perspectives and social institutions, and to help you organize your thoughts forand writing for the Final Essay assignmentdue in Week 6.
The Assignment:
- Download the SOCI 1001S Rough Draft Essay Worksheet document listed in the Required Media for this assignment.
- Consider the 4 prompts presented in the black boxes of the SOCI 1001S Rough Draft Essay Worksheet document and respond to them in the white boxes immediately following each prompt. Note that you should present your responses in paragraph form as complete sentences, and each of your responses should be approximately 2 paragraphs in length.
- Keep in mind that this Worksheet will help to shape the Final Essay that you will write at the end of the course.
By Day 7
Submit your Rough Draft Essay Worksheet.
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SOCI 1001S Rough Draft Essay Worksheet
This Worksheet is designed to help you better understand the three sociological perspectives and social institutions, and to help you organize your thoughts for writing your Final Essay, due in Week 6. As you complete each section, keep in mind that you will be transferring and expanding upon this information in your Week 6 Final Essay assignment.
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Compare and contrast each of the three major sociological perspectives (functionalism, conflict, and symbolic interactionism) discussed in Unit 1 of the Interactive Units. Be sure to address the similarities and differences between each of the three perspectives. Note: When looking for similarities, consider what matches in the perspectives, or theories. How are these things similar to each other? If you took notes while you were reading, you would be able to review those and look for paired concepts. |
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Select and state one social institution (education, family, or government, as discussed in Unit 1 of the Interactive Units) to analyze. Identify and discuss a social issue or problem related to the social institution. |
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Write three small paragraphs (2-3 sentences each)—one for each sociological perspective—in which you describe your chosen social institution from the perspectives of functionalism, conflict, and symbolic interactionism. For each paragraph, refer to at least For more information on how to use evidence in an essay, please review the Walden Writing Center’s material on using evidence: http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/evidence |
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Create a rough draft of an introduction and conclusion you might use in your Final Essay. State your thesis statement clearly in each and support that thesis with three main points. The introduction and conclusion should mirror each other but contain fresh language. In other words, the conclusion should not be a word-for-word restatement of the introduction or the thesis. |
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