Sociology outline

Your choosing under the Umbrella of umbrella of race, class and gender, this is just the outline. You may choose to adjust your topic as you get further into your research. This is just the outline. You may choose to adjust your topic as you get further into your research.Your outline for your paper/project should contain at a minimum: of 400 words or 3 minutes of content.

You may choose an alternative to the essay, a presentation with accompanying script (audio or written).

I am also open to other ideas that feel like the equivalent to a topical essay. Please let me know if you have ideas you would like considered as soon as possible.

Please make time to learn more about and relate to your topic. Please bring in your own perspective, items from the peer reviewed journals, and other sources. You should have at least 3 sources referenced in your outline. *You should type some key words into the library journal search and/or google scholar to identify sources.

Please incorporate ethical analysis, address your bias, and if you feel strongly on a position, look into sources that differ from that position. Please consider how bias shows up in your major and within these topics. Becoming less biased starts with awareness. Additionally, please bring into your paper how decolonization connects to the topic.

It does not need to be exhaustive, but should be mentioned and considered.

Please refer to the following criteria, for the presentation shoot for expect 8-12 minutes of content meeting the minimum citation guidelines. It should include the following elements as well, although may appear more conversational. *I encourage the use of photos, art, and referencing multiple sciences within your project/paper. You may choose to turn in a manuscript or a recording. You should have citations to support the outline and final project.

**Please note this prompt is not meant to be the format. There are resources in the writing center for that or you can make it your own, but your communication should have some type of flow to it.

An Introduction, a thesis statement, and or the main points you intend to discuss and background

(Evidence, details about the topic you are interested in and information that you refer to for your analysis. If your evidence is from older sources, you should consider some of the ethics or points of view that researchers may have and offer some insights given your understanding of decolonizing.

Analysis. Bring your insights in and contemplate the implications of different sources. For example if you are discussing the traditional farming relationships to climate change you might want to look into various experiences with that and make some inferences. Like I would assume that folks used to climate extremes and are in an areas with resistance to colonial disruption may figure out how to best work with their more extreme environments.

Your interest it would be helpful to include how you connect to your topic of choice. This is where people often address their bias too

Conclusion

You may choose to recap some of your major points. You may also branch out and mention how learning more influenced your perspective. Additionally, it would be great to hear your perspectives on how things could be different. I like the idea of futurities, although also enjoy discussion about those types of visions for today.

Ethics/antibias your paper/project should include considering how ethics, decolonization, and antibias might show up.

For instance it is important to consider that sometimes Indigenous knowledge is extracted from communities,

· there might be bias that assumes consumer culture as better than traditional relationships,

· when things are past oriented, there might be romanticization,

· cultures are often dynamic, yet current efforts dismissed

· there may be mistrust of researchers and some knowledges are meant to be kept closer to community or shared in a certain way.

· some fields only allow in information from certain approaches. With the exclusive nature of having research supported its possible that alot of the information within a field does not include diverse perspectives or methodology to produce knowledge reducing scope, depth, and creating space for group think. There is also data that never is published if findings do not align to what is expected, which may skew understandings within the field.

Grading Criteria. Please read above for the details in addition to what is in the rubric

1) Contains Introduction, (2 points)

2) Evidence and analysis (2points)

3) Conclusion (1 points)

4) Ethics and bias (1 point)

5) Situating yourself (1 point) within the topic. Your voice should be present and please share what interests you in the topic. This also connects to ethics and bias.

6) employ writing and communication Convention s (2 point) associated with an academic essay or project.Use essay format. The sections listed are the skeleton of an essay. You may choose to offer subheadings to help your reader and the writing process. Please cite using a style guide and use other writing conventions; such as organization, flow, transition sentences, grammar, and punctuation.

7) Supporting your peers , (1 point) offering peer feedback, you may choose to write a note to your peer reviewers requesting what sort of feedback would be helpful.