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  Writing for Sociology 

Soc 301 - 01    Autumn 2009

Wk 6
DAY 1

The Narcerima and observation tips Observation paper #4  

Nice paper by William Vong (a thought piece, but also observation-like)
Nice paper by Wendy Chaidez (observation-like)
black - school, education

% of ethnic groups at CSULA vs. how we group ourselves on campus, in classes, walking, eating, hanging out

Diversity, education, classroom behavior (Afternoon class - help me out here:  what was the question?)  see Green adjacent for highschool vs. college students.  This group is connected to PM green group.  You could send a representative on Monday to share data better.

 

Diversity at CSULA:  statistics and reality

Education - Classroom behavior and success (seating, our cards)

 

 

 green - family, gender

do  male answers differ from female answers to questions about relationships.  does the younger set differ from the older set on same questions.

highschool vs. college kids on campus:  are actions "conservative" or more "open" among these two groups - the group is connected to AM black group.  You could send a representative to share data better.

Fam Bam - I can't remember, and the Q wasn't on the paper

driving habits - this group might benefit from asking questions with a big cardboard circle that you give to your respondents so they can "show" you

dining at restaurant habits - by gender

DO YOU THINK you will have a better life than your parents had.  DO YOU THINK your children will have a better life than you had?

Gender beliefs and outlooks on inequality or outlooks on partnerships (what's important)

Gender observations:  what do U SEE in MALE/FEM on campus (gaze, sidedness, sitting)

Family  the 5 rules of raising kids

 
red - politics, power

which tv station goes with which party or with "left" "centrist" "right"

who (left, right, center) knows what/sees what about NY23 - this is really interesting, but tough to form good clear do-able questions.

health care bill pro and con and which TV station you watch.  also, do you understand 3-4 aspects of it?

Political beliefs, reported actions - and outlooks on life (the American Dream)
who knows more about the health care proposal - left wing or right wing

Media:  beliefs and actions about information vs propaganda

 

 blue - thought, meaning, religion

elements in raising good children (to raise a national merit scholar, you have to answer 'yes' of 5 of these 6:

  1. dinner together at least 5 nights a week
  2. take your kids to church or temple once week
  3. check homework at least 4 nights a week
  4. vacation with family once a year
  5. ask the kids where they are going when they leave the house - and get the truth
  6. encourage kids to participate in a team sport

Do you still believe in the American Dream (or did your parents) cross-tabulated with 1st, 2nd, 3rd generations, ethnic groups, and/or sex

pick 2:  what do you want the most cross tabulated with sex, race, etc.:

  1. The opportunity to succeed
  2. The good life
  3. the pursuit of happiness
  4. The American dream
  5. A Fair Shake
  6. to Be Left Alone
  7. A Fresh Start
  8. Everything I can Get
  9. A Fighting chance
  10. A New Beginning

does the kind of music U listened to growing up impact your life plans

David C and Christina G - I can't read it - can U state the question in email?

Religious, Art, Spiritual, Stylistic - beliefs, reported actions - and outlooks on life
what do we want: 
health control
peace of mind
financial independence
the facts
children-grandchildren 
companionship-connectedness
the good life   - maybe "pick two" 

 

 

 

Wk 6
DAY 2

 


EOS P 39-50  EOS - EOS page 65-72 (not 65-85)
QUALITATIVE  Mon Nov 9:  Submit Group Reply NEAT, CLEAR, CLEAN, GOOD PAPER
                                         (As an individual - do you wish to submit your variation?)

 

1.   cross-tabulation:  two variables 

SURVEY
gender

ANSWERS YES OR NO

M
F
G (?)

 

 

 

 
   

OBSERVATION generation

INTERESTED UNINTERESTED

1ST Gen
2nd
3rd -4th Gen

 

 

 

 
   

2.   hypothesis stated clearly: 
      we predict women will answer X due to their training to be XYZ
      we predict 1st generation will answer quickly due to their certainty

3.   observation or survey tool:  as clear and concise as you can make it

4.   target N

5.   method:  Survey Monkey, Poll, ask (which) classes, sit (where) observe
6.   schedule and assignments (who types up; who copies, who is point person)
      EVERYBODY LISTED:  ALL EMAILS CLEAR - with assignments
      sallyperson@calstatela.edu - point person distribution list by tomorrow
      jeffperson@yahoo.com - type survey
      mariaperson@calstatela.com - soandsoperson@whatever.com - will go to X
      tomperson@soandso.com - will compile the data and distribute it
      jamieperson@yahoo.com & maryperson@msn.com - sit on plaza as team

 

What area you would like to explore:

How would you like to explore

  1. observation
  2. ask questions (questions about beliefs, questions about actions)
  3. little (color) cards - both classes, other classes
  4. create action and observe
GETTING IT DONE:   You will be in a small group to collect data; you will analyze the data independently
Wed 04:  form groups  -  brainstorm
Mon  09:... groups create tool
Wed 11:...Vet's day - HOLIDAY
Mon 16:...use tool (fieldwork - together or independently) compile and share data
Wed 18:...observation paper due in two copies + Tabor delivers "chart expectations" 
Mon 23:...work together to complete Quantitative paper
Wed 25:...can work on it for furlough day!!!
Mon 30:...final touches on paper #5 and assignment for final paper
Wed 02 ...  due in class

 Title   

what will we count  What to count COUNT: 
                 political consciousness; spiritual consciousness; self expression; gender & sex; other

what is the question
what is the hypothesis
why is this important
sample
findings
analysis
conclusion

 
Wk 7
DAY 1
FILM
(DAY 2 Vet's day)		  
Wk 8
DAY 2
(DAY 1 Furlough)		  
Wk 9
DAY 1		  
Wk 9
DAY 2		  
Wk 10
DAY 1		  
Wk 20
DAY 2		  


Wk 1
DAY 1

  • Significance - Blog - Music every day:  you or me

  • Enrollment

  • Web page

  • Cards:  data

  • Bases for grades:  multiple

  • Syllabus - Our SEVEN papers

  1. who:  I Me We Change

  2. conflict consensus

  3. library research

  4. quantitative: field

  5. qualitative:  field

  6. open - other  some examples:  morning pages (saw negativity), restaurant, grad school, socy as music. 

  7. Final:  Improve one

  • Sign up today - 2 places

Wk 1
DAY 2
  1. 3 p max
  2. title page CIN   Date  Paper #  ON TIME or LATE
  3. ASA format from paper #3 on
  4. Citations from paper #3 on
  5. Abstracts from paper #3 on
  6. EOS rules & eliminate excess words
  7. Evaluation/Policy is not Sociology
  8. Structure B M E & Title:  paragraph lists
  9. Proofread
in-class writing.  Free form + rule 17
Title and Questions + 1 sentence + 3 sentences (or 5 sentences)
 EOS page 23-24 Rule 17 - important for us
EOS page 31-32 Rule 21 - not so important for us
 

1/2 hour on Paper #1
  BLOG technicalities:  "bandwidth" - see comments to Post (steps we will learn)
sign ups
blog, post, comments: "threads"
2 ways to see comments
2 URLs
2 ways to edit (pencil)
save draft
Categories
color
link
embedding videos
polls

 

 

  1. I - what is the biggest challenge for "I"

  2. We - what is the biggest challenge for "we"

  3. Me - what is the biggest challenge for "me"

  4. Change - what's happening
     SEE CHART

    Press
    Creative
    change    		 Congress
    HR
     Me
    Executive
    CEO
     I    		 Judicial
    CFO CIO
     We

Child - Adult
Group member - Solo artist
Traditional me - Modern I
Me - I  or  I - me
Married - Single   or Single - Married
Closeted - Out
Lonely - Connected  or Connected - Lonely

 

Sedentary - Active

Read Cheerleader paper  I focused on Self and Change

EOS page 1-5 Rules 1 2 3
 pp. 39-44 7 green dots (will go over in class)

ASSIGNMENTS
XYZ Piles
ASSIGNMENT:  2 search words.  X Y Z your paper

 

Wk 2
DAY 1

DAY 2

 Music of the day    Many Student Opportunities    Did U receive an email from me?

photos    circle

Assignment for paper #2:  paradox - the functions of conflict
learn, change, express, adjust, equalize
Conflict of consensus - rebel, falsehoods, incorrectness
Conflict across groups vs. within groups
Consensus across groups vs. within groups
UNIT OF ANALYSIS:  self, dyad, triad, family, peers, school, work, community, state, nation state, world
maybe "I" as conflict, "Me" as consensus
PM - more on Marx and Durkheim.
Organic Solidarity - Mechanical Solidarity

Wk 3
DAY 1

 

Wk 3
DAY 2

 

 1-20:   traditional - modern.  group - individual
Read 1 paper
"society" is an abstraction; abstractions don't "do" anything

Caps in Titles:

no contractions in academic papers

4 or four     what IS a "sociological imagination"

AWK   WW   underlined

 

 

Conflict Consensus paper

Conflict-Consensus paper :  a post which might help

someone sent me an email to learn it if was ok to write about conflict and consensus .... here's the email

QUESTION:  I have an idea about the conflict and consensus paper, I wanted to do gender norms/roles.  The conflict would be a women being oppressed by the gender norms. Consensus would be societie's norms and rules being accepted by male (those in power).  Can you give me feedback so that i could get a better grasp.
MY ANSWER:   more interesting to see the paradox:
women oppressed by the gender norms AND BENEFIT FROM the same gender norms
men (in power) in the Gender Norms arena
and also NOT WELL SERVED by Gender Norms.
 
Hence, rather than taking the typical (poor, victim women mean, powerful men) show how women are also beneficiaries and men are also victimized.
 
make sense?  because each arena or zone you pick (e.g., women, or men) has BOTH

http://writingsoc.blogspot.com/2009/10/buckling-down-to-do-paper.html

 

WHAT IS A PREMISE:  what is OUR premise
CONFLICT MAKES ONE GUILTY OR VICTIM
CONSENSUS MAKES ONE HAPPY, GOOFY, GIDDY, CONFORMISTS
ACHIEVEMENT - EFFORT - Buckling down, doing, thought-LESS, but not thoughtless

EOS P 5-7 Rules 4 (comma but comma and) 5 (semi-colons) 6 (fragments)

Read SFF 4 pages
  conflict and consensus paper notes
CLICK TO my sample paper.  It's a 1ST draft.  It might get better later in the day. 

This paper suggests an idea for you IF YOU are still struggling:  you might look at a woman or a man in the marketplace where you work in both "masculine" and "feminine" terms.  In other words, I do not expect U to be so broad and historical as I was:  you can find this same "struggle" or "variance" in a very close and small sphere.
  movie attendees lists:  Have a good time at the Movies
Wk 5
DAY 2
(DAY 1 Furlough)		 MONDAY MOVIES on Floor 3, Media Room, Palmer Library

10am Ma Vie en Rose, Misswmontes (rented it)

10am Crips and Bloods: James Shanice, Derek Cheng, Martha Lemus, Kathlees Funes, Monique Ortiz, Irvin Fragoso, Kathleen Funes, Laura Garcia

12noon Great Debaters

12noon Long Way Home:  Anet Babakhanyan

1:30 Crips and Bloods: Natalie Garcia, Stepanie Wong, Xuan Troung, Jeanette Padilla, Nichole Karalis,Osf626

1:30 American History X:  Martha Chirinos, Jonathan DeJesus, Gabby, Rene, Marina Jamie

3:30 He Said, She Said

3:30 Great Debaters

Breaking the Mayan Code:  Stephen Lam (open time)

Great Debaters, Ani Isayan,

Crips and Bloods, Marentez89, Laura Garcia, martha sanchez

Am Hist X marentez89

 
 

 

Wk 4 -
LIBRARY
Paper notes
 

 

 

 
LIBRARY PREP:  you will discover:  at least three articles and one website

you will site your four references in four ways

  • one in-line when the author name is in the sentence

  • one in-line when the author name is in the (parentheses)

  • one block quote - for this you will email yourself one article

  • one where the article has three (or more) authors

you will write an abstract and have a reference page

the paper will be 2 pages long with one page of citations and one title page with abstract

you will say something about the topic, your approach to the topic, and your discoveries

on Paper #3, Library. I am looking for precision in the technical details, not for in-depth research on the topic.   A paper could begin in one of the three simple ways that follow.  That would be the beginning.  The middle will be your attempt to put together some paragraphs (one or three) that manage to cite things the way they are expected to be cited.  The end can be a more subjective wrap up, tying up either the research possibilities, the whole library experience, or both.  E.g., I liked it, I learned, I found the articles enlightening and the methods fantastic - or whatever.  Beginning, middle, end.  Read the sample student paper above.

1.  A trip to the library provided a quick glance at several articles in the area of X and Y.  All the research I discovered seemed to say something similar ... go on to quote and cite...then wrap it up.

2. A trip to the library provided a quick glance at several articles in the area of X and Y.  None of the articles approached the topic the way I see it, which is ......  Instead they .... go on to quote and cite ... then wrap it up.

3. A trip to the library provided a quick glance at several articles in the area of X and Y.   Some research echoed and expanded my own views.  For example .... go on to quote and cite.  Other articles appeared to ... go on to quote and cite.   One in particular caught my attention when it said .... maybe here goes a "block quote" which you will learn about on Wednesday.   Then wrap it up.

 

Henceforth, all papers follow ASA guidelines
   

 

questions

What is sociology

What is sociology not

What do I love about sociology

What do I not understand about sociology

What can I do with a sociology degree

What should sociology focus on

What are the major sociology books ever published

What sociology teacher affected me the most

What does sociology have to do with politics

What is the central question of sociology

What is the difference between sociology and Sociology

How did I get into Sociology?

etc.

 


I ME WE CHANGE CHART

CHANGE
"ADAPTATION"

CHG is a faucet, always on, the flow, the gap, the pivot on which the group and the individual DANCE

NETWORK 
"INTEGRATION"
big - small
moves disrupt networks?
interlocked - compartmentalized?
top  - bottom ?
 Me is the group, network, lessons, “shoulds”, the getting alongs, hurts, scrapes, bumps, nurturing, the LOVE
SELF
 "GOAL ATTAINMENT"
 I is the effort – the charge – the decision – the goal – the human look to the future – it is HOPE

SOCIAL STRUCTURE
"LATENT PATTERN MAINTENANCE"
institutions, beliefs, procedures
We is FAITH –  procedure, routine, ways of doing things, empirical reality, process, operations – with regularities, we can have FAITH in them.  If procedures don’t work, because of Is and Mes not regular and we cannot have faith in them. 
Sense – and operations – can break down or can build up and maintain.

 

A.  "geology" - look at something in society:  a gas station, a fast food outlet, a line-up waiting to get in someplace, two gay lovers walking down the street, a man taking care of a baby, a $1.4-$4 million dollar bill for the MJ Memorial, a store going out of business - anything!  Try to look at the scene as a geologist:  a social geologist.  What are the social forces that "painted" the scene?  What are the social results of the scene.

B.  earlier you wrote about who you are sociologically.  Now ask yourself if there is something you want to change:  either to start doing something or stop doing something.  Make that change.  without getting too personal or too psychological, how do you see your "I" "me" "we" and "change" with regard to the change?

Documentary:  we have to choose!

 

SAMPLE W2 Paper - the Cheerleader one read in class

SAMPLE #2 of a W2 (with his permission)

Sample Library paper  (with her permission)

MT Sample Library paper- requirements for "L" in this one.

SAMPLE

HB Sample

 

 

 

 

 

TO LOOK SMART, AVOID GRAMMAR MISTAKES  

  1. affect effect

  2. lie lay laid

  3. beliefs believes

  4. All words in titles are capitalized.

  5. Numbers:  spell out one that begins a sentence, e.g., Three of us went to the store.  Spell them out under nine (9).  Use numbers if 10 or more.

  6. Difference between a colon (:) and a semicolon (;)

  7. Contractions

  8. people that sing - people who sing

  9. different from vs. different than

  10. too much (not to much)

  11. Even MSWord knows the rule about fragments and colons:  paste this into MSWord and then make a : for the . Change breaks down between known or repetitive change and unknown, unexpected change.  The fundamental regularity of the change of seasons versus unexpected shocks like tsunamis, tornadoes, and rainbows. 

  12. Dash rule:  Seeing and understanding even that which you do not understand—particularly that which you do not understand—is primary.  

  13. Use the active voice, e.g., I was going -->  I went

  14. instead of me having to do this vs. instead of my having to do this

  15. utilize -  use

  16. Give the book to Maria and I.  (RULE 10)

  17. Me and her we danced. (RULE 10)

  18. AWK

  19. REFERENCES:  Centered, at the end, hanging indents, and single spaced for me.  Do not number them.

  20. In-line CITATIONS:  Two versions

  21. The librarian, she taught.    The librarian taught

  22. Margins and word wrap -  a student demonstrates

  23. Paragraph indent is always 5 picas

  24. FRAGMENT:  While attempting to pose the question of how to empower and organize against the oppression heteronormativity presents.  à The paper poses the question of how to empower and organize against oppression from heteronormativity.

  25. Advices à advice (and not advise)

  26. None of the papers was good enough to receive an A. (number agreement)

  27. I use to - I used to

  28. I spent time with them being that I - I spent time with them since I

  29. I would have to say that my grandmother - my grandmother

  30. To tell you the truth - just  tell it
     

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