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soci10_discussion_paper.docxINTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY - SOCI10
ASSIGNMENT 4
Due: Friday, March 28th
Hardcopy to be submitted in class
This assignment is designed to get you thinking about sociology as a social scientific discipline and to learn more about one of the following:
1) Perspectives on Beauty,
2) Use of storytelling to transmit cultural knowledge, or
3) Social class and inequality
Students must pick one of the following three choices listed below and complete the assignment.
Presentations will be given to your small group in an informal manner. You DO NOT need to create a power point to support your presentation. You should have a one page, point form handout for your group and instructor as well as some type of activity (e.g., prepared questions, quiz, bingo, etc,.) to engage your audience in your discussion. Presentations should be about 5 - 7 minutes.
Choice A
Find pictures in magazines, CD covers, and on-line that reflect your idea of ‘beauty.’
Cut out or print the pictures to make a mural of the pictures you selected.
Reflect on the images that you selected to answer the following questions.
1. What do you consider beautiful?
2. How do your opinions fit into class readings?
3. Do you feel beauty is influenced by culture?
4. Bring your pictures and reflection to share in class
Choice B
Ask someone to tell you a story that is significant to themselves and/or their family. Summarize the story in one to two paragraphs and tell when they first heard the story and when they first told the story.
Discuss the role that these stories played in the transmission of culture for the storyteller. Include how the story reflects (or does not reflect) norms, values, and folkways.
Explain, whether or not you agree with the significance of storytelling in the transmission of culture.
Choice C
Conduct a search of articles that provide examples of social stratification in Canada. Select 2 articles to discuss in your group.
Explain why you selected your particular articles and provide a summary of your articles.
Describe how the ideas in the articles “fit” into any theoretical explanations for social stratification.
Provide a conclusion to summarize your key points.
Assignment 1
Assessment Rubric
(80 – 100%)
• Content is well researched and contains all required information
• Expresses and organizes ideas and information with a high degree of effectiveness
• Uses subject specific vocabulary, and terminology with a high degree of effectiveness
• Demonstrates a thorough knowledge and/or understanding of concept
• Highly detailed and accurate synthesis/analysis of findings
• Uses appropriate and consistent academic referencing including publisher, volume
• Almost no errors in conventions (e.g., grammar spelling, punctuation)
(70 – 79%)
• Content is adequately researched and contains most of the required information
• Expresses and organizes ideas and information with considerable effectiveness
• Uses subject specific vocabulary, and terminology with considerable effectiveness
• Demonstrates considerable knowledge and/or understanding of concept
• Detailed and mostly accurate synthesis/analysis findings
• Usually uses appropriate academic referencing
• Few minor errors in conventions (e.g., grammar spelling, punctuation)
(60 – 69%)
• Content is partially researched and contains some of the required information
• Expresses and organizes ideas and information with some effectiveness (some parts have to be reread to clarify ideas)
• Uses subject specific vocabulary, and terminology with some effectiveness
• Demonstrates some knowledge and/or understanding of concept
• Somewhat detailed synthesis/analysis of findings
• Attempts to cite some resources
(50 – 59%)
• Content is superficially researched and contains only basic information
• Expresses and organizes information with limited effectiveness
• Uses subject specific vocabulary and terminology with limited effectiveness
• Demonstrates limited knowledge and/or understanding of concept
• Limited or incomplete synthesis/analysis of findings
• Resources are not cited
