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,. . . . . . . . . . . .   SOC301 Writing for Sociology

ONE FINAL EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY

Due Week 10:

  • Final PA (if you have not already - It will not be considered late Tuesday) INSTRUCTIONS:  Final PA (if you have not yet done it)

  • Bring Morning Pages if I have not seen them

  • Next is Week 10:  Show up!  Bring cultural products - music, poetry, other
    - to glimpse the intersection between biography and social history

  • TAKE - HOME FINAL EXAM:  3 pages tops.  Double-spaced

What is your greatest fear?  How has your culture coaxed you to see, to judge, and to approach or avoid certain practices (training, education, abortion, religion, marriages, sex, openness or closeness to people unlike yourself, counseling, health & eating, exercise, professional help, "new age" solutions, etc), practices which create and maintain that fear or break down that fear.

Other side of the coin:  What is your greatest dream?  How has your culture encouraged you or created the obstacles to force you to find the stamina in yourself to hold fast to that dream? (Use the 3 “fields” as above. 

You may choose to focus on either the greatest dream or the greatest fear - they may be connected.)

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY:  Elements of Style

Rules 15, 16, 17, 19, 20 still need explication

Here is #11 as a sample.
RULE 11:  You have to put the Subject up by the opening participial phrase like this: 
INCORRECT: In examining society, the social history in which the individual unwittingly lives must be part of the Sociologist's understanding.
CORRECT:  In examining society, the Sociologist must understand the social history in which the individual unwittingly lives.
You may do any 1-5 of the other rules.  1 point each
A.  You state the rule in plain  English
B    You MUST use example INCORRECT and CORRECT sentences that are "as if" from Sociology
 

 

 


 

CWMillsPA AssignmentsGradesConceptsGrammarQuads


S Y L L A B U S
 

1 03/28 Introduction: The Elements of Style and Sociology
         “On Intellectual Craftsmanship,” pp. 195-226 
        IN CLASS WRITING ASSIGNMENT:  IA* #1 Prose:  What Is Sociology?

        Read for wk 2 Afterward or "Craftsmanship" + Ch 1 "The Promise" <--PA1 due next week!

2 04/04 The Promise of Sociology                           Begin Morning Pages

            Imagination, Ch.  1,  pp. 3-24                       PA*#1 OUTLINE+3 sentences:  “The Promise”
         Afterward Craftsmanship Imagination             IAﾟ #2   “Afterword,” pp. 229-242

         4 systemic “Quads”  

3 04/11 Grand Theory in Sociology – Cont “On Intellectual Craftsmanship”

Ⓐ       Imagination, Ch.  2, pp. 25-49                      PA* #2 WHAT IS SOC Rewrite

         Elements, Usage, pp. 1-14                            IAﾟ  #3

         PA #3 assignment: 

4 04/18 Practicality (and establish “Empiricism” for next week)

Ⓑ         Imagination, Ch.  4, pp. 76-99                     PA* #4 RESEARCH

         Elements, Form, pp. 34-38                           IAﾟ  #4

5 04/25 Empiricism – research groups       Cont “On Intellectual Craftsmanship”

         Imagination, Ch.  3, pp. 50-75                      PA* #3 Morning Pages

         Elements, Composition, pp. 15-33                 IAﾟ  #5 RESEARCH – Gather resources

         CONSULTS 6:10–7:00      7:00 -8:30    All together @ library CONSULTS  8:45 - 9:30     

6 05/02 Bureaucracy - the Bureaucratic Ethos

Ⓒ         Imagination, Ch.  5, 100-118                        PA* #5 (research "abstract")
Elements - Brenda A on next two styles

Elements, Words and Expressions, 39-65                    IAﾟ  #6

7 05/09 The Philosophies of Science             PA#6

Ⓓ    Imagination, Ch.  6, pp 119 – 131               3 soc' implications for 3 positions               

         Elements, Style, pp. 66-74                         IAﾟ  #7 - in-class credits

8 05/16 The Human in Human Society      

Ⓔ   Imagination, Ch.  7, pp. 132 – 142               

Elements, Style, pp. 75 – 88                                IAﾟ  #8  Human in LA Today

           

 

9 05/23 Historical Position                PA:  Intersection of biography and history map

Ⓕ   Imagination, Ch  8, pp. 143 – 165                                                   

10 05/30 Reason and Freedom & Politics
   Ⓖ   Imagination, Ch 9 & 10, pp. 165-194                 
         Rev of Class   IAﾟ  #10:  The Sociology of this Class as a "Pt of Interest"   

06/06    7:30 PM FINAL MEETING  EXAM ROOM for one  IAﾟ  #11

 

GUIDELINE FROM Gloria Lopez and C.Wright Mills: [11] different ways people feel at different times:

  1. Well being:  When people cherish some set of values and do not feel any threat to them

  2. Crisis:  When they cherish values but do feel them to be threatened

  3. Uneasiness:  unaware of cherished values, but aware of threat

  4. Indifference:  not aware of cherished values, nor threatened

      Values + Values -
    Threat +

    Crisis

    Unease
    Threat -

    Well Being

    Indifference

     
 

Concepts List

apposite

adj : being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; "the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images"; "an apt reply" [syn: appropriate, apt, pertinent]
 

 

re-ify (don't)

2 pulls:  belong and be free

intersection

point of interest

troubles vs. issues

social structure

equilibrium

de rigueur - required by the current fashion or custom; socially obligatory

referent - A person or thing to which a linguistic expression refers.  A referent is not a reference.

 

 

 

REQUIRED READINGS: 
The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills
Elements of Style, Strunk and White

 

 

8:30 Morning Pages

18 days in succession
2 pages
don't let the pencil stop
Due at individual Consult time

 

 

 

past class sessions

What Is Sociology?

7:05 IA#1 IA In-Class Assignments [3 points] instructions

 

1 side, 1 page, no ragged paper - opposite side may be brainstorm or outline

  • Brainstorm - Random thoughts

    Brainstorm:  Sociology is ... groups, sexism, violence, a department, a particular teacher, a recommendation, about neighborhoods, history,  talks about people in groups, nurture vs. nature, freedom  . . .

    Examples of sociology that are important (to me) are X or Y ... 

    A Sociology Professor who made me see made me see X or Y ...

    Sociology is used by X and Y - its purpose is X or Y ...

  • Group the thoughts

  • Divide into Beginning, Middle, and End (end can return to values, principles, starting points)

  • Title the piece e.g.:
     IA1 Soc301 M.Tabor “Sociology is Having a Sociological Imagination (SI)”

  • Write the 3 paragraph statement

  • Re-read: Cross off 10 extraneous words. Correct grammar.

  • Re-write

  • Look over 3 paragraphs.  Write 1 sentence conclusion (4th Para.)

7:15 - 7:45 IA WritingTime standard paper size.  No ragged edge.

7:45 Break

7:55 Reassemble - Read 3 Samples

IA=#1A Sample     (below)

 

6:10 AGENDA

6:20 Return papers

6:40 The Promise

the outline

oral readings

quads - "front" world vs. "back" world

7:40 Writing Time - IA#2 CWM intersections of biography and history 
 [6-7] point of interest [7] issues vs. troubles [8]

 

8:30 Break - 10 MINUTE

8:40  Concepts List - what to add to list from "The Promise

8:55 Elements of Style - Rule #4ME #5 Who #6 Who

9:00 Assign PA#2 What is Sociology Re-write

9:05 Ⓐ group "See Me"

the outline

oral readings

quads - "front" world vs. "back" world

Week 3

6:10 AGENDA

6:30 Grand Theory

7:15 Types of Analysis

7:30 Concepts List

7:45 Break

8:00 Elements of Style - Rule #4ME #5 Who #6 Who

7:40 Write - IA#3  DRAFT THEN FINAL THEN CROSS OFF 10 WORDS

9:00 Assign PA#3 

 

  1. 6:15   These two chapters:  Empiricism and Practicality

  2. 7:00   Details:   Next week location, assignment, sign up sheets, expectations for in-class days, Elements of style Rule #7 and #8 A note on outlines:  OUTLINE PRINCIPLES

    • Never an A without a B

    • Never a 1 without a 2
      Paper outline is due today or Thursday (door)

  3. 8:00   Tonight’s in class assignment:  CROSS OFF 10 WORDS

  1. 6:00  OPEN - email tabor@sorenkerk.com to sign up

  2. 6:10  Deanna Werner

  3. 6:20  Vanessa Reyes

  4. 6:30  Brenda Aguilar

  5. 6:40  Charles Mix

Come early - start your search for 10 good references early
7:00 - 8:00 Search with a Librarian's assistance

  1. 8:10  Daira Lopez

  2. 8:20  Ruben Vargas

  3. 8:30  Maura Barajas

  4. 8:40  Luis Morales

  5. 8:50  B. Maddox

  6. 9:00  OPEN - email tabor@sorenkerk.com to sign up

Week 7

6:10 writing assignment - group outline Portrait of an American

7:15 break

7:30 Philosophies of Science

8:00 Elements of Style 
         PAStyle  <--what you want to get right
         PA7 <-- content "Portrait of an American Human"

8:15 Imagination:  Philosophies of Science

8:45 Preview of coming PA8

Week 8

 

5:35 Individual Consult  (KH-D3081-F) :   ___Doug Shashima RSVP____

5:50 Individual Consult  (KH-D3081-F) :   ___ kavi vuong RSVP____

6:10 IA Writing Assignment =
           Group Exercise: for The Human in Human Society

7:15 break

7:30 "The Human in Human Society" C. Wright Mills:  several panel members

8:00 Elements of Style 
         PAStyle  <--what you want to get right
         All PAs, archived

Final Paper:  Let us consider your choice for your 3 page Final Paper