General Paper Requirements: All papers for all classes will be submitted as a Wo
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

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