General Paper Requirements:
All papers for all classes will be submitted as a Word document only. No hard copies will be turned in. No Shared Documents will be accepted.
Times New Roman, Verdana, Calibri – 12-point font (yes, it has to be typed)
Cover Page: name, class and section (example: SOC 210-71), title, date
Use APA format (cover page, margins, citations – if your paper requires).
However, if you complete your paper using illustrations or applications that
are YOUR OWN (without providing concept definitions), you will have no citations. If your work demands references, however, they need to be provided in APA format.
Double-spaced
Your paper will need to be 4- pages min. (not including the cover page)
Must be uploaded to Blackboard / Canvas by the due date.
The paper must be submitted as a Word document (.doc or .docx).
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Do NOT even THINK of looking at movie review websites for any part of your paper. Every semester several students gets a zero and end up failing the course because of using lines, phrases or thoughts from a movie review website. I will be checking, and doing this is plagiarism. It could end your college career, go on your permanent record, and/or cause failure in the course.
Points Are Earned as Follows:
Outline 100 points total
Introduction 10 points total:
5 points - Introduce the movie/paper – basic plot – in the context of sociological principles. You will synthesize – bring together – sociology and the movie plot.
List the four broad categories you will be covering. Integrate or weave in the list of categories within your introduction. Must be a well-developed paragraph with depth of thought and good grammar.
Body Paragraphs (20 points each – there will be at least 4 body paragraphs) – 80 points total
Open with your category in a clear topic sentence
Within the paragraph, apply three examples of completely different concepts under the topic of that category to a movie scene.
For example (1 paragraph would look like)
Category – socialization – described in topic sentence
5 points - Develop example 1 (your first topic related to socialization, for example – family as agent of soc) from movie relating to the family as an agent of socialization. Do not define family as agent of soc but apply a scene from the movie that shows an example of the concept.
5 points - Develop example 2 (your second topic related to socialization, for example – nature vs. nurture) from movie relating to nature/nurture. Do not define nature/nurture but apply a scene from the movie that shows an example of the concept.
5 points - Develop example 3 (your third topic related to socialization, for example – The Looking Glass Self) from movie related to The Looking Glass Self. Do not define The Looking Glass Self but apply a scene from the movie that shows an example of the concept.
5 points – for paragraph development, communication of ideas, and grammar.
Each paragraph like the example would be worth 20 points, and you will do 4 – based on 4 different categories. These will total 80 points.
Conclusion – worth 10 points total
10 points - Evaluate - present your defended opinion of how well (or not) the movie related to sociology. Integrate this into your paper’s concluding statements.
Must be a well-developed paragraph with depth of thought and good use of grammar.
List of Movies for SOC 210 Paper Assignment
( If you have a different Movie or T.V. Show that is not listed that you would like to use for this assignment, please email me the name of the Movie or Show)
Hotel Rwanda
A Time to Kill
Harriet
Brokeback Mountain
Schindler’s List The Green Mile
Outbreak
Kiss The Girls
Boy’s Don’t Cry
In the Line of Fire
Dead Man Walking
National Treasure
Forest Gump
Akeelah and the Bee
Freedom Writers
The Case for Christ
The Shawshank Redemption
Hidden Figures
Television Shows:
(Pick an Episode to write about, not the entire series)
Shameless
The Walking Dead
Breaking Bad
The Blacklist
Queer as Folk
Prison Break
Manhunt (Unabomber – Netflix)
The L Word
Grey’s Anatomy
Game of Thrones
The Fosters