Assignment: The Sociological Perspective
Overview
Now it's time to apply the concepts from this week's reading and discussion to your personal experience. There is no required length for this assignment. As a general guideline, meeting all the criteria for this assignment will usually take at least 3-5 paragraphs, but if you have more to say yours may be longer. Feel free to message me with any questions.
Journal Prompt for The Sociological Perspective
To understand behavior, sociologists look at their social location in society: their group memberships within categories like occupation, income, education, gender, age, race-ethnicity which influence their self-concept and behavior.
For this assignment, I'd like you to use elements of social location to explain voting patterns in the most recent Presidential election. In your analysis you should identify social location by referring to specific groups in society.
• If you voted, how did your social location influence your choice? If you didn't vote, how would your social location have influenced you to vote?
• Now try to analyze elements of the social location of voters who cast their vote for a different candidate than the one you chose or would have chosen.
• Can you link any of the issues that influenced voters to larger social structures? (See the NYT article linked in required reading for specific ideas.)
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.