Description
Description:
The Project is made up of five parts. The end result is an eight-to-nine-page written paper about your selected topic (see topic options in Module 1). Your final paper will include:
Introduction (statement of the problem)
Literature review
Background information/history
Global perspective
Future implications
Conclusion
References
Project: Part 5 requires you to finalize and submit the final version of your Project paper.
Objectives:
Discuss sociology, its origins, and the concept of adopting sociological and global perspectives when observing society.
Specify the key elements of science that are applied by sociologists to the scientific study of social groups and society, defining the key scientific terms and describing how they are used in sociology.
Explain the sociological meaning of the concept of culture and its components, providing examples of each.
Identify the characteristics of social structure and explore the relationship between social structure and individuality.
Discuss basic concepts relating to the social institutions of kinship, family, and marriage on both the local and global levels.
Explain the four (4) basic principles and different systems of social stratification.
Explain the role that gender plays in socialization in the family, the peer group, schooling, and the mass media.
Distinguish between race and ethnicity and describe racism and prejudice, identifying the three (3) perspectives theories of the latter.
Explain the basic components used by demographers to study populations and describe demographic changes in the United States throughout its history, using the perspectives of Ferdinand Tönnies, Emile Durkheim, Georg Simmel, Robert Park, and Louis Wirth on urbanization as a way of life.
Describe the four general characteristics of social change, discuss the different sources of social change, and compare the perspectives on social change as offered by Ferdinand Tönnies, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Karl Marx.
Instructions:
Make necessary revisions from your rough draft and
Submit the Final Paper (all 7 sections listed above should be included in this final draft).
Assignment Submission:
The use of outside resources is required, and all papers must be cited and written in current APA format.
When you have completed the assignment, click the Submit Assignment option in the menu to the right and select a format for submitting your assignment.
Click the Submit Assignment button when you are ready.
Rubric
Concorde Final Paper (2020) Rubric
Concorde Final Paper (2020) Rubric
Criteria Ratings Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAssignment Ideas
80 pts
Ideas are clear, insightful, thought provoking, and focused so that they consistently support the topic, thesis, and audience of the paper.
60 pts
Ideas are clear and focused to support the topic and a clearly stated central idea but are not consistently insightful or thought provoking.
30 pts
Ideas are clear but conventional or general and support the topic, thesis, and audience for the paper.
10 pts
Ideas are unclear or clichéd and demonstrate a lack of focus in support of the topic or a central idea, which might be vague or missing.
80 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAssignment Development
80 pts
Development is fresh, with abundant details and examples that arouse audience interest and provide relevant, concrete, specific and insightful evidence in support of sound logic.
60 pts
Development is adequate but might lack depth, with details and examples that arouse audience interest and provide relevant, concrete, specific evidence in support of sound logic.
30 pts
Development is sufficient but general, providing adequate but perhaps not interesting details, examples, and evidence that include no logical fallacies or unsupported claims.
10 pts
Development is insufficient, providing scarce or inappropriate details, evidence, and examples that might include logical fallacies or unsupported claims.
80 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeOrganization
30 pts
Organization is coherent, unified, and effective in support of the paper’s purpose/plan and consistently demonstrates effective and appropriate rhetorical transitions between ideas and paragraphs. Full Marks
20 pts
Organization is coherent, unified, and effective in support of the paper’s purpose/plan and usually demonstrates effective and appropriate rhetorical transitions between ideas and paragraphs.
10 pts
Organization is coherent and unified overall in support of the essay’s purpose/plan, but is ineffective at times and might demonstrate abrupt or weak transitions between ideas or paragraphs.
5 pts
Organization is confused and fragmented in support of the essay’s purpose/plan and demonstrates a lack of structure or coherence that negatively affects readability.
30 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeStyle and Mechanics
30 pts
Style is readable and rhetorically effective in tone, incorporating varied sentence structure, precise word choice, and correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation. (Mastery of style)
20 pts
Style is readable and rhetorically effective in tone, incorporating varied sentence structure, effective word choice, and correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation. (Effective style)
10 pts
Style is readable but unremarkable in tone, sometimes including a lack of sentence variety effective word choice, or some distracting, but not serious, errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation. (Readable but inconsistent style)
5 pts
Style is incoherent or inappropriate in tone, including a lack of sentence variety, ineffective or inappropriate word choice, and serious errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation. (Ineffective style)
30 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeFormat and Citations
30 pts
Format is correct, meets all assignment directions, and works expertly to support the paper’s purpose/plan. All resources are formatted in current APA style with no more than two errors.
20 pts
Format is correct, meets all assignment directions, and works generally to support the paper’s purpose/plan. All resources are formatted in current APA style with three to five errors.
10.01 pts
Format is mostly correct, meets critical aspects of assignment directions, and works mostly to support the paper’s purpose/plan. Most resources are formatted in current APA style with more than five errors.
5 pts
Format is faulty, does not meet sufficient aspects of the assignment direction, and does not support the paper’s purpose/plan. Resources are not formatted in APA style with extensive errors.
30 pts
Total Points: 250