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CSOC 103 How Society Works - Ryerson University

Assignment - Research Essay

Topic - Explore how women and minorities face an invisible barrier that keeps them from rising beyond a certain level in a hierarchy.

Description
Students may pick any topic that deals with any social issue related to 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 books and relevant course materials.
The essay should be 6-8 pages in length, with one inch margins, size 12 font and double-spaced, not including the bibliography or title page. 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 professor obtained PRIOR to the scheduled due date. It is within the discretion of the professor as to whether or not to grant an extension upon request from a student.

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 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 of the Family journals and books Sociology journals and books
Mass Communications journals and books Criminology journals and books
Work and the Family journals and books Work and Occupations journals and books Sociology of Education journals and books History journals and books
It is expected that your references will include a combination of books, book chapters and journal articles. Scholarly journal articles can be retrieved on-line through the Ryerson Library journal abstracts website, Sociological Abstracts.

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
• The media and images of popular culture Racism and policing
• Racism and the criminal justice system Anti-Racism education
• Racism and nursing
• The feminization of nursing
• The medicalization of women/the feminization of mental illness
• Social Issues and AIDS (i.e., the social construction of "African AIDS", women and AIDS) Racism in Canada (pick a particular issue involving one particular racial/ethnic group) The women's movement in Canada (first wave, second wave or third wave feminism) 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" Men, masculinity and sport Women, femininity and sport The social construction of sex
• The social construction of heterosexuality/homosexuality
• Race, class and gender (i.e., Black feminist thought, South Asian feminist thought, Muslim feminist thought)

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