Restructuring of work and globalization in black community
The restructuring of work and globalization OR Poverty in Canada OR Racism in Canada (black community)
Please pick ONE out of three topics– DOUBLE SPACED —
RESEARCH ESSAY
Students may pick any topic that deals with any social issue from the course materials or lectures. Students are required to write a sociological paper that is analytical and critical.
It is imperative to note that the writing of a sociological paper requires the primary use of scholarly sociological sources, such as sociological scholarly journals, sociological books, and sociological edited collections.
The paper MUST include a minimum of FIVE sociological scholarly sources (books, scholarly journal articles) NOT including the course text book and relevant course materials.
The essay should be 7-8 pages in length, with one inch margins, size 12 font, double spaced and stapled, not including bibliography and title page.
Do not triple or quadruple space between paragraphs. In doing so, you immediately signify to me that you have not met the minimum length requirements for this paper.
Moreover, triple and quadruple spacing between paragraphs is improper formatting and does not meet the standards of APA or Chicago Style. This means your paper must have 6-8 pages of substantive content.
Students are required to include a full bibliography of all materials used in the paper. Late papers will not be accepted without consent from the course director obtained PRIOR to the scheduled due date. Papers will NOT be accepted via e-mail. Papers will only be accepted in person in class.
Please note that references that are NOT scholarly sources and will NOT count in your bibliography as scholarly sources include the following:
• newspaper articles (i.e., The Toronto Star, The Toronto Sun, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, etc.)
• magazine articles (Maclean’s, Newsweek, The Economist, etc.)
• encyclopedia references (including Wikipedia)
• dictionary references (including Oxford Dictionary and other dictionaries)
• non-scholarly websites, blogs, etc.
Students should also note that government websites and statistical data are NOT scholarly sources and will NOT count as one of the five scholarly sources required for this paper.
Government websites and statistical data provide information that is NOT scholarly and NOT analytical. Statistics denote a social trend but can be interpreted in numerous and contradictory ways. Statistics themselves are devoid of analysis. Simply stating a statistic does not explain or explore any critical sociological analysis.
Similarly, government websites state government policy that is devoid of analysis, and usually reproduces mainstream stereotypes, assumptions and misconceptions.
Critical sociological analysis provides a critique of mainstream stereotypes and assumptions. The use of government data requires critical sociological analysis. Please note that these government websites and statistics include, but are not limited to the following:
• Statistics Canada
• Ministry of Immigration and Citizenship
• Government of Canada website
• Government of Ontario website
Students must get approval from the course instructor for any internet sources they may wish to use. Scholarly journal articles can be retrieved on-line through the Ryerson Library journal abstracts website, Sociological Abstracts. Sources acquired on-line through Sociological Abstracts do NOT require instructor permission.
Students should also note that the research paper is a SOCIOLOGICAL paper that requires SOCIOLOGICAL analysis. Scholarly sources are required to be limited to sociological sources. Scholarly sources that are NOT sociological and will NOT be counted as part of your FIVE required sociological scholarly sources include:
• Nursing journals and books
• Medical journals and books
• Economic journals and books
• Business journals and books
• Social work journals and books
• Psychology journals and books
• Social psychology journals and books
• Behavioural science journals and books
• Biology journals and books
• Genetics journals and books
Scholarly sociological sources that are ACCEPTABLE are the following:
• Race and ethnicity journals and books
• Feminist and Women’s Studies journals and books
• Sociology journals and books
• Communications journals and books
• Criminology journals and books
• Sociology of Education journals and books
• Sociology of the Family journals and books
• Sociology of Work and Occupations journals and books
• Sociology of Health and Illness
• Political science journals and books
• Political economy journals and books
• History journals and books
Papers that do not include a minimum of five scholarly sociological sources will be assigned an automatic failing grade. Make sure that your sources and your analysis are sociological.
Make sure that your sources are SOCIOLOGICAL and NOT psychological, medical or derived from popular mainstream media. Papers that are written from a psychological, medical or mainstream popular media perspective will automatically be assigned a failing grade.
Students should never reference lecture notes in their papers. The reference of lecture notes in essays is improper and shows laziness on the part of the student for failure to research their topic properly. Lectures are based on scholarly sociological research.
Any issue raised in lecture must be referenced in its original scholarly sociological source upon which the lecture is based. This means that students are required to seek out the original scholarly publication.
Please note that students who do not submit the research paper will automatically fail the course.
Possible research topics include but are not limited to the following:
• The Eugenics Movement/Biological Deterministic arguments
• The restructuring of work
• Social inequality/social mobility
• Poverty in Canada
• Canadian immigration policy and Canadian nation-building
• Immigration and settlement issues
• Aboriginal peoples in Canada
• Racialized minorities in Canada (pick a particular racial/ethnic community)
• The role of the state
• Class and the education system in Canada
• The restructuring of work and globalization
• Precarious work
• Post-Fordism
• Globalization (pick a specific issue)
• Racism and policing
• Racism and the criminal justice system
• Anti-Racism education
• Racism and nursing
• The feminization of nursing
• Racism in Canada (pick a particular issue involving one particular racial/ethnic group)
• The domestic labour debate/gender division of labour in the family
• Women and part-time work
• The feminization of work
• Women and the “glass ceiling”
• Women in a particular male dominated job
• Men and the “glass escalator” (i.e., men in feminized jobs)
• Men, masculinity and sport
• Women, femininity and sport
Grading Criteria for Research Essays:
Your research paper is worth 30% of your final grade and will be evaluated on a 30-point scale based on the following criteria:
1) Content: (15 points) adequately addressing the topic with an emphasis on Sociology, and critical analysis that considers the strengths and the weaknesses of the research sources in light of the paper’s main research argument.
Avoid relying too heavily on summarizing and/or describing your research sources, or simply describing a problem. You must engage the sources and critically apply them to your argument (i.e., thesis).
Your analysis should address how and why this social problem/issue occurs. Your paper should emphasize HOW this social phenomenon becomes normalized in our society. In other words, you need to examine the social process by which this social phenomenon occurs and is legitimated in our society as normative.
2) Thesis Statement and Clarity of Argument: (5 points) focus, direction and logical organization and integration of ideas in a well structured argument. Do you have a clear and concise thesis statement?
3) Structure and Organization: (5 points) paper should include the following components:
a. Introduction: clearly stating your thesis/research argument and the specified points you will be arguing in the paper.
b. Body of Paper: where you develop your argument with support from your reference sources.
c. Conclusion: links your main ideas together.
4) Proper referencing style and grammar: (5 points) Both direct quotes and an author’s ideas must be referenced in your paper. Your paper should not have more than one or two (maximum) direct quotes.
The paper should primarily be written in your own voice with social science citations crediting the scholars to whom those ideas belong. APA is the preferred referencing style.
All referencing citations must include the author’s name and the year of the publication using social science citations. Social science citations are located as the end of the direct quote or an author’s idea.
Social science citations are located inside brackets and include the author’s last name, the year of the publication, and the page number. For example, (Miles, 1989:18).
Your references in your bibliography must include the author’s name, the year of the publication, the exact and complete title of the article/book, the publisher’s name, the city of publication, and (in the case of a journal article or book chapter) page numbers. Please note that essays that do not include the required FIVE scholarly sources (as defined in the terms above) will automatically be given a failing grade.
5) Bibliographic References: The following are examples of proper bibliographic reference styles for books, edited collections, and journal articles.
a. Book Reference Example:
Miles, Robert. 1989. Racism. London: Routledge.
b. Edited Collection Reference Example:
Mitchell, Allyson & Karaian, Lara. 2005. Third Wave Feminisms. In Nancy Mandell (Ed.). Feminist Issues: Race, Class and Sexuality. Fourth Edition. Toronto: Pearson Education Canada Inc.
c. Journal Article Reference Example:
MacKinnon, Catherine A. 1983. Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 8(4):635-658.
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