Sociology Question

​Final Paper Instructions Pick an aspect of social construction to discuss and apply it to one social topic or issue that you are interested in. Paper Formatting ● Write a four-to-five page essay, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins, and 12pt font, in Arial or Times New Roman. Include page numbers. ● Include a references page (not counted towards the four-page minimum) ● Title your paper, filling in the blank “The Social Construction of ________.” ● Please use ASA or APA style for your citations and references. ● No cover page, abstract, running head, or keywords are necessary. Scholarly Literature ● ● ● ● You must have 5+ scholarly sources. At least two of your sources need to be from peer-reviewed sociological journals. The remainder (3+) can be from scholarly books or reports or journals outside sociology. News stories, magazine articles, and cultural references are welcome, but do not count towards your 5 scholarly sources. Visual Include at least one table or figure, labeled and marked according to ASA or APA Style. It can be a chart of relevant statistics or a cultural artifact illustrating your point. Make sure it is not just a loosely related meme or image, but something that largely reinforces your argument. Grading Rubric Minimum page count (4+ pgs) 5pts Minimum quantity (5+ scholarly sources) and quality of literature (2+ peer-reviewed sociology journals) 5pts Clarity of argument and scholarly tone 3pts ASA or APA Style (only for citations and references) 3pts Grammar and spelling 2pts Quality of visual 2pts Total 20pts Helpful Resources SDSU Writing Center: https://writingcenter.sdsu.edu/ Tutorials From Dr. Davis’ YouTube: ● Understanding Journal Articles ● Using Google Scholar to Find Literature ● Citing and Referencing in ASA Style Selecting a Topic To help you pick an aspect of social construction to write about, I recommend picking one or more of the short topics you have read in my essays for this course. The links to the essays are below for your convenience. Pick one or more, then choose a social issue to apply it to. Interrogate Society: Social Construction in Everyday Life Introduction 1. Reality is made of nature and culture 2. Social construction happens in a cyclical process Institutions 3. Societies solve problems with institutions 4. Humans have institutions for instincts 5. Our roles correspond to institutional needs 6. Institutions need justification 7. Institutions age Identity 8. You are given a self before you know it 9. Your tastes and desires come from somewhere 10. Socialization is only an attempt 11. Knowledge is socially distributed 12. Identity grows from multiple sources Conclusion 13. Norms structure the limits of our identities 14. Social Change is hard but possible To help you pick a social issue, I made an alphabetical list of things that are socially constructed. The list is not exhaustive and you can pick topics not on the list. List of Topic Ideas: The Social Construction of _____________ A Ability Addiction Activism ADHD Adolescence Adulthood Age Alcoholism Anxiety Art B Banking Beauty Blackness Blindness Body, the C Cancel culture Capitalism Career Charisma Childhood Citizenship Classics, the Common sense Communication Communism Communities Consent Corruption Crime Cults D Dance Death Democracy Depression Deviance Disability Discrimination Diversity Divorce Dreams Drug scares E Economy Education Emotions Environmental issues Ethnicity Everyday life Justice Juvenile delinquency F Family Fashion Fatherhood Fatness Femininity Food Freedom G Gender Government G-spot H Happiness Harassment Health Higher education High, getting Home Humanity Humor I Identity Illness Immigration Incarceration Inequality Influencers Insanity Institutionalization Intelligence J Jargon Judgment K Kinks Kinship Knowledge L Labor Language Law Leadership Learning disability Leisure Literacy Love M Marriage Masculinity Math Mealtimes Medicine Meritocracy Military Money Monogamy Morality Motherhood Murder Music N Narcissism Nationality Nature News Normalcy O OCD Order Organizations P Reality Religion Retirement Rights Roles Patriarchy Personal space Personality Politics Poverty Power Purpose Private property Productivity Psychotherapy S R T Race Talent Safety Schooling Science Self, the Sexuality Sex work Social problems Socialism Sociology Technology Time Truth V Value Victimhood Violence Virginity Virtue W War Wealth Wellbeing Whiteness Wisdom Work