{"id":87176,"date":"2022-08-12T21:59:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T21:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/writing-assignment-1-introduction-of-your-sociological-imagination\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T21:59:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T21:59:08","slug":"writing-assignment-1-introduction-of-your-sociological-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/writing-assignment-1-introduction-of-your-sociological-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing assignment #1: introduction of your sociological imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It has only been a few weeks since you were introduced to sociology, but I hope that you are just as enchanted as I was when I took Soc 1&#8230;.For this week&#8217;s writing assignment, scan the textbook, the news, or your everyday lives. Pick an issue that intrigues you. Describe this issue and what makes it sociological. How would a sociologist understand the issue that you identified&#8230;? Try to reference at least one course reading (the text or the readings on Moodle) as you explain the sociological significance of the issue that you identified.<\/p>\n<p>Your write up should be 1-2 pages in length (double spaced, one inch margins, 12 point font, MLA format)<\/p>\n<p>Here are some wide areas for you to think about that you might draw a more narrow example\/idea from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Police Brutality<\/li>\n<li>The Media and Sexuality<\/li>\n<li>Plastic Surgery Trends<\/li>\n<li>Technology &amp; Society &#8212; selfies, cell phones, facebook&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>The High Costs of Education<\/li>\n<li>Obesity<\/li>\n<li>Same Sex Marriage<\/li>\n<li>The Death Penalty<\/li>\n<li>Terrorism<\/li>\n<li>Racial Climate in the US\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Immigration<\/li>\n<li>Health Inequality<\/li>\n<li>The Role of Animals in Society<\/li>\n<li>Food Inequality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You will be graded based on the following criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identification of an Issue 15 Points<\/li>\n<li>Sociological Explanation of the Issue 15 points<\/li>\n<li>Reference to at Least 1 Course Reading 10 Points\u00a0(you can always cite Mills&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Sociological Imagination<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Formatting (MLA format, page length, inclusion of a works cited page) 10 Points<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>here&#8217;s sample paper for inspiration and the guide and the course reading mills<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has only been a few weeks since you were introduced to sociology, but I hope that you are just as enchanted as I was when I took Soc 1&#8230;.For this week&#8217;s writing assignment, scan the textbook, the news, or your everyday lives. Pick an issue that intrigues you. Describe this issue and what makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}