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Soc 206 Spring 2014 Activity Assignment 2 (Option 2) Due date: The day of the second midterm How to turn in: Turn in a copy to Turnitin.com on the day we take midterm 2. Point value: This activity is worth 20 points. Considerations: We will discuss this topic in class and you are encouraged to talk about this topic with your classmates outside of class. You can even read each other’s papers. However, simply copying and editing another person’s paper is considered plagiarism and you will, at a minimum, get a zero on this assignment. Turnitin.com is very good at catching plagiarizers. Please do not attempt. Resubmission policy: Any paper that receives a score of less than 19 (93%) can be revised and resubmitted. However, the resubmit option can only be used once. And the maximum score possible for a paper that is resubmitted is 19. There is a section on Turnitin.com where you can turn in a resubmission. Also, you must turn in a hard copy as well. You will have until the next...

Soc 206 Spring 2014 Activity Assignment 2   Due date: The day of the second midterm   How to turn in: Turn in a copy to Turnitin.com on the day we take midterm 2.   Point value: This activity is worth 20 points.   Considerations: We will discuss this topic in class and you are encouraged to talk about this topic with your classmates outside of class. You can even read each other’s papers. However, simply copying and editing another person’s paper is considered plagiarism and you will, at a minimum, get a zero on this assignment. Turnitin.com is very good at catching plagiarizers. Please do not attempt.   Resubmission policy: Any paper that receives a score of less than 19 (93%) can be revised and resubmitted. However, the resubmit option can only be used once. And the maximum score possible for a paper that is resubmitted is 19. There is a section on Turnitin.com where you can turn in a resubmission. Also, you must turn in a ha...

Race and Ethnic Relations Spring 2014 Research project draft works cited and literature review Assignment: Now that you have a research question, do a review of the literature and write a works cited page. Find at least one article or book that uses the same method that you will use. For example, if you are going to do a survey, find an article that uses the survey method. The other sources do not have to use the same method you use. Cite at least two sources. Use any format you want for the works cited page, APA, MLA, or other. Write a draft literature review section. In this section, you will summarize relevant previous research and talk about how your research adds to what is already known. Since you have not conducted your research yet, you will have to guess a bit and revise later. Write a draft works cited page. If after doing the literature review, your research question and method has changed, note that as well. Due date: Due the day of ...

Study Guide – Rankism and Weightism Lecture on rankism 1.        Which types of bias are forms of rankism? 2.        Characteristics of social hierarchies What Makes You Click? — Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating 3.     According to the study “What Makes You click,” how much additional income is needed for a woman taller than median height (5’ 5.5”) to be as successful on online dating sites as a median height woman? 4.     According to the study “What Makes You click,” in order for a 5’ 2’’ tall man to be as desirable to a woman as a man who is 5’ 11.5’’ tall (median height) and who earns $62,500 per year (median income), he needs to have an additional income of how much? Women’s Increasing Wage Penalties from Being Overweight and Obese 5.     Since 1981, what has  happened  to the percent of white women overweight or...

Study Guide – Desmond and Emirbayer, Chapter 1 1.        Is race actively created and recreated? 2.        With respect to ethnic classification, is ancestry more important that phenotype? 3.        Have racial categories used in the US and Brazil census has changed? 4.        Define race, ethnicity, and nationality 5.        What kinds of individuals can more easily slip and slide through multiple ethnic identities? 6.        Until the late nineteenth century, was immigration to America deregulated and encouraged (with the exception of Chinese exclusion laws)? 7.        According to Mae Ngai, did Euro American ethnic and racial identities became uncoupled during the 1920s; and did Asians’ and Mexicans’ ethnic and racial identities remain conjoined in...

Study Guide Color-Blind Privilege: The Social and Political Functions of Erasing the Color Line in Post-Race America Charles A. Gallagher 1.        National polls indicate that most whites believe what? 2.        Whites employ colorblind ideology in order to what? The Ideology of Color Blindness Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres 3.        The accumulation of wealth serves to what? 4.        Is wealth accumulation more difficult for black families than for white families due to structural racism? 5.        Does colorblind ideology reaffirm the unearned privilege of whites and not recognize historic impacts on society?

Study Guide –Desmond and Emirbayer, Chapter 2 1.        When did the term “race” obtain its modern meaning? 2.        Which two European countries, according to the authors, had more influence than others in creating the system of racial classification we know today? 3.        During the fourteenth century, which country’s citizens were regarded as nothing short of “savages” to England? 4.        What form of identity could we see in its beginning stages within fifteenth century Spain? 5.        Which term refers to a historical era marked by the rise of nationalism, development of capitalism, global expansion, and disenchantment of the world and rapid growth of scientific knowledge? 6.        What term refers to when a foreign power invades a territory and establishes en...