Pick an aspect of social construction to discuss and apply it to one social topic or issue that you are interested in.
Pick an aspect of social construction to discuss and apply it to one social topic or issue that you are interested in.
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) | 6pts |
| Minimum quantity (5+ scholarly sources) and quality of literature (2+ peer-reviewed sociology journals) | 6pts |
| Clarity of argument and scholarly tone | 4pts |
| ASA or APA Style (only for citations and references) | 4pts |
| Grammar and spelling | 2pts |
| Quality of visual | 2pts |
| A descriptive title and subtitle on your topic (Not just “Final Paper”) | 1pt |
| Total | 25pts |
Helpful Resources
SDSU Writing Center: https://writingcenter.sdsu.edu/
Help Topics From Dr. Davis’ Tutorials Website:
- Journal Articles: https://www.methodsmentor.com/p/understandingjournalarticles
- Google Scholar: https://www.methodsmentor.com/p/google-scholar
- ASA Style: https://www.methodsmentor.com/p/asa-apa-style
- Please note that the downloadable template in ASA style is for an empirical research paper, but this final is just an essay. Therefore you will not need the cover page, abstract, or sections dealing with collecting and analyzing data (e.g., methods and findings). Mainly just look at how the sub-titles, in-text citations, and references are formatted.
- Please note that the downloadable template in ASA style is for an empirical research paper, but this final is just an essay. Therefore you will not need the cover page, abstract, or sections dealing with collecting and analyzing data (e.g., methods and findings). Mainly just look at how the sub-titles, in-text citations, and references are formatted.
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
Institutions
- Societies solve problems with institutions
- Humans have institutions for instincts
- Our roles correspond to institutional needs
- Institutions need justification
- Institutions age
Identity
- You are given a self before you know it
- Your tastes and desires come from somewhere
- Socialization is only an attempt
- Knowledge is socially distributed
- Identity grows from multiple sources
Conclusion
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
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
Justice
Juvenile delinquency
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
Patriarchy
Personal space
Personality
Politics
Poverty
Power
Purpose
Private property
Productivity
Psychotherapy
R
Race
Reality
Religion
Retirement
Rights
Roles
S
Safety
Schooling
Science
Self, the
Sexuality
Sex work
Social problems
Socialism
Sociology
T
Talent
Technology
Time
Truth
V
Value
Victimhood
Violence
Virginity
Virtue
W
War
Wealth
Wellbeing
Whiteness
Wisdom
Work
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