Paper on Assimilation or Pluralism?
This course has focused a great deal on the debate between assimilation and pluralism in our culture. Choose a theoretical perspective (assimilation or pluralism) and write a 1500-2000 word essay on the strengths and challenges of this perspective.
This assignment should incorporate class reading materials, discussion questions and associated materials from the lecturette(s) as well as 4 other peer reviewed sources. The final exam should be double spaced and in APA format. This assignment is focused on assessing your ability to use a theory to analyze the feature of one of our social institution(s).
Your grade will be based on how well you communicate your understanding of each topic to me, and how thorough that understanding is.
The importance of your topics to the subject-matter of the course will also impact your grade. (This assignment constitutes 30% of your course grade.