Research Paper Assignment
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review your feedback from the Assignment: Summarize Your Sources for the Research Paper. Make sure that your instructor approved of the sources you chose for the final paper and your working thesis statement. Make any changes that your instructor requested prior to beginning work on the final paper.
In the Research Paper, you will
• Describe an aspect of your own culture from an etic (outsider's) perspective in Part I of the paper.
• Describe an aspect of another culture from an emic (insider's) perspective in Part II of the paper.
• Apply cultural relativism in order to examine misconceptions about culture that may occur due to ethnocentrism.
o Keep the distinction between cultural relativism and moral relativism in mind as you write your final paper.
o Even if you do not personally agree with a cultural practice, explain how the practice makes sense in its cultural context.
o Avoid opinionated or judgmental language in your paper.
• Analyze your chosen aspect in terms of how it developed as part of a social system within both your culture and another culture.
• Analyze your chosen aspect in terms of its purpose as part of a social system both within your own culture and another culture.
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.