Assignment
Write an essay in which you complete each of the following:
Connects a personal experience to sociological concepts of power, including mention of specific theories.
· Part 1 - Describe your experience:
o Describe the event and the underlying diversity issues at play.
o Describe your opinions, feelings, actions, and what you learned from the event.
· Part 2 - Examine your experience:
o Discuss experiences from your personal background that might account for your feelings or reactions.
o Consider areas such as your ethnicity, history, upbringing, local mores, recent events, et cetera.
o Connect your experience to at least three sociological concepts and/or issues. For example, if you are writing about what if feels like to be an outsider, you could connect your discussion to the concept of power or social structure, or the broader issue of relationships between dominant and minority groups.
o Examples of other concepts you could include are: prejudice, discrimination, stereotypes, cultural pluralism, assimilation, structural mobility, social distance, and modern racism.
o Examples of theories include functional or conflict theory, Marx's and Weber's theories of inequality, Park's race relations cycle, Gordon's theory of assimilation, human capital theory, scapegoat hypothesis, and the theory of authoritarian personality.
Analyzes data to make valid sociological inferences and cites specific instances of data to support them.
o Incorporate research on the broader issue that your experience illustrates. For example, if the incident you describe involves discrimination in the workplace, research workplace discrimination and find data on the prevalence or nature of this problem. If the incident involves bullying at school, locate data on how extensive this issue is. Questions to consider include:
o Is the type of incident you describe commonplace?
o Where might this be most prevalent?
o Among what groups is it most likely to occur?
o What trends did you notice in your research? For example, does the kind of incident you experienced or observed seem to be an increasing problem, or is it declining over time?
Analyzes how laws or policies are applied to a diversity issue and cites support from scholarly sources.
o Analyze how relevant laws or policies might be applied to this situation. These may be civil or criminal laws or, perhaps, policies established in the workplace or schools.
o Consider whether any laws or policies were violated and how those laws or policies might be changed or better enforced to address the situation you describe.
o Analyzes personal characteristics or experiences that might account for feelings or reactions involving a diversity issue.
Analyzes strategies for addressing a cultural diversity issue.
o Based on your reflections of the event and the research you have now done, share personal strategies that are useful for informing the interactions or relationships between the involved parties, as well as your own understanding or perspectives.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.