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Essay Instructions: Synthesis means putting ideas from multiple sources together. Instead of finding similarities and differences, sythesizing sources is a matter of pulling them together into some kind of harmony. Synthesis searches for links between concepts for the purpose of constructing a thesis or theory. In a previous paper we summarized C. Wright Mills' article on the Sociological Imagination. The purpse of the essay is to draw on your understanding of what Mills meant by 'sociological imagination,' to incorporate an additional sociologial perspective into it, and to connect the two together to your personal life.

1.)Remember that Mills teaches us to connect the individual to the larger society; know the difference between personal troubles and public issues; and to recoginze that our biographes are set in a larger historical scene.

2.) Select and additional focus of Gender/Sexuality
Select 3 concepts/theories

3.)Combine your understanding of the 'sociological imagination' with your new focus and write an essay that explains how you see the two of them relating to your own life.

I. Introduction
II. Review of Mills
III. Connect Mills and your added emphasis
IV. Conclusion

Essay Instructions: THIS IS THE ACTUAL ASSIGNMENT...



SOC1020 ONLINE: Essay 1 ??" The Sociological Imagination

NOTE: It’s important to read the article on Sociological Imagination before completing this assignment.

Question:

According C Wright Mills the Sociological Imagination enables us to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society. It allows us to understand how seemingly “personal troubles” may be related to the larger social context of “public issues.” Identify an issue that you think would be personal trouble for an individual (eg. unemployment, divorce, homelessness, etc.) and then identify the societal influences that impinge on the individual’s experience.

Information in paper must be backed by research facts and not guesses or common sense knowledge.

Paper must be at least FOUR pages long, double space, APA style [check syllabus for requirements for submission of papers]

You will need to use at least TWO other academic sources (This excludes your textbook, and the article on Sociological Imagination ??" This means in addition to your text book and the article on Sociological Imagination, you will need TWO more academic sources). Your textbook is a good source for extra sources. Please use websites sparingly

Plagiarism: Plagiarism is a major academic offense and will be fully punished if caught. Plagiarism means the presentation of the ideas and/or the words of someone else as one’s own.

You commit plagiarism if you use:

Any part of another person’s written words without correct documentation.

Any part of another person’s ideas without correct documentation.

This includes any part of a book, encyclopedia, magazine article, journal article, newspaper article, CD-ROM, or website used without correct documentation.

Plagiarism is punished in a variety of ways. The student who plagiarizes may fail the assignment and/or the entire course. And, in consultation with administrators, the instructor may recommend further action in accordance with the NSU Code of Student Conduct and Academic Responsibility policies.

For a detailed description of plagiarism and its potential consequences, consult the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences’ Catalog.

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Essay Instructions: ‘That discourse one might call the poetry of transgression is also knowledge. He who transgresses not only breaks a rule. He goes somewhere that the others are not; and he knows something the others don’t know.’ Susan Sontag, ‘The Pornographic Imagination’ (1967); A Susan Sontag Reader (Penguin, 1983), 232.

Discuss this claim in the light of the texts Dennis Cooper's "Frisk" and Todd Solontz's "Happiness".

Essay Instructions: A presentation which should accomplish a few things: a selective overview of the most important formal or thematic aspects of the reading; situate the reading in the context of the course, when appropriate; and offer 3-4 questions to kick-start a discussion. The presentation need not be a complete accounting of every text, but it should focus in some detail on at least 1. Rather, it should make connections and raise the kinds of questions or problems to discuss in that presentation. Title of Presentation: Under/ uneven development and American Studies. The Readings for the Presentation: Roberto Schwarz, " Misplaced Ideas"
Neil Smith, " The Ideology of Nature," from Uneven Development: Nature, Capital , and the Production of Space
Augusto Candido, " Literature and Underdevelopment"
Sheila Hones and Julia Leyda, " Geographies of American Studies," American Quarterly 57 (2005)
Recommended: Immanuel Wallerstein, World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction; Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo, The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development ( Duke)