SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Moral Panic, Demand Response, Social Constructionism
10 Apr 2013
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Lang discipline vs everyday: avoid: society, individual, culture, use person or people instead. Plural words (data, phenomenon, media) (need verb agreement data are distributed) Avoid i think or believe i will argue etc (rather first person) Govt sites, stats can, police sites but not counted as 10 sources. Quotes explained for their relevance if used. Can cite more than one author for a sentence/claim when more than one made the same claim. Intro (10%: locate problems to be investigated w/i context of sociological concerns. And indication of the specific topic (issues/arguments) to be addressed and how they will be addressed: thesis one sentence, about 5 arguments. Analysis (55%: discuss topics as become relevant, each section (argument) specific link to demonstrating the validity of the thesis, sociological concepts used defns of key concepts, explicit recognition of sociological research********************************* Conclusion (5%) (specific to general: past tense, no new data. Sources 10: academic, recent & relevant (social science) min 10.
