Response Paper #8

I’m working on a Social Science exercise and need support.

1. Response Papers: Each student in the class will write ten typed, double spaced, response papers, 4-5 pages each, throughout the quarter, focusing on the readings from the course but also incorporating ideas from lecture. Structure your response papers like this:

• Discuss the thesis, arguments, or main points and the evidence the author(s) provide for each reading from the course reader assigned for that week.
• Make connections: show the relationships between the readings, and/or readings from other weeks, and/or the textbook, and/or class presentations, and/or lecture, and/or other classes you’ve taken.
• Evaluate the content of the readings (not the style). What, if anything, did you learn? Most of all, how well did the author(s) support their argument?

For example: Your first response paper starts with the second module (You don’t have to write a response paper for the first module).

• Write one paragraph from You May Ask Yourself, 2, “Methods,” summarizing the main points.
• Write one paragraph from You May Ask Yourself, 3, “Culture and Media,” summarizing the main points.
• Write one paragraph on “Invitation to Sociology,” discussing the thesis and evidence.
• Write one paragraph on “Human Inquiry and Science,” discussing the thesis and the evidence.
• Write one paragraph on “Promoting Bad Statistics,” discussing the thesis and the evidence.
• Write one paragraph connecting the readings to one another, and/or the textbook, and/or lecture, and/or other course material.
• Write one paragraph evaluating the content of the readings.

TEXT: Chapter 13, “Education”

Chapter 16, “Religion”

READER:

Chapter 45, “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”

Chapter 46, “Muslims in America”

Chapter 47, “All Creatures Great and Small”

REQUIRED BOOKS (Available at the College Bookstore)

Conley, Dalton. 2019. You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist.

(6th ed.). New York: W.W. Norton & Company. [TEXT]

Anderson, Margaret L., Logio, Kim A., and Taylor, Howard F. (eds.). 2015.

Understanding Society: An Introductory Reader (5th ed.). Belmont, CA:

Cengage. [READER]