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ESSAY ASSIGNMENT

Your essay must make use of the following three sources:

1. One academic reading selected from the following list; the reading you select serves as the primary scholarly material for your assignment. All of these readings are available as pdf's on Canvas under the module "Essay Assignment and Readings." Ask your instructor if you need assistance with selecting a reading or if you wish to search for a reading outside of this list.

Ahmed, S. (2010). Feminist killjoys. In The promise of happiness (pp. 50-87). Duke University Press.
Ahmed, S. (2012). The language of diversity. In On being included: Racism and diversity in institutional life (pp. 51-81). Duke University Press.
Brym, R. J. (2012). The social basis of cancer. In Sociology as a life or death issue (pp. 81-102). Nelson Education.
Butler, J. (1988). Performative acts and gender constitution: An essay in phenomenology and feminist theory. Theatre Journal 40(4), 519-531.
Christopher, J. C. & Hickinbottom, S. (2008). Positive psychology, ethnocentrism, and the disguised ideology of individualism. Theory & Psychology 18(5), 563-589.
DiAngelo, R. (2018). How does race shape the lives of white people? & The good/bad binary. In White fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism (pp. 51-87). Beacon Press.
Ehrenreich, B. (2018). The madness of mindfulness & Death in a social context. In Natural causes: An epidemic of wellness, the certainty of dying, and killing ourselves to live longer (pp. 71-111). Twelve Publishing.
Frye, M. (1983). Oppression. In The politics of reality: Essays in feminist theory (pp. 1-16). Crossing Press.
Fisher, M. (2009). What if you held a protest, Capitalism & the real, Reflexive impotence & Don't let yourself get too attached. In Capitalist realism: Is there no alternative? (pp. 12-38). Zero Books.
Graeber, D. (2014). Dead zones of the imagination: An essay on structural stupidity. In The utopia of rules: On technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy (pp. 45-103). Melville House Publishing.
Graeber, D. (2018). Why do we as a society not object to the growth of pointless employment? In Bullshit jobs: A theory (pp. 193-244). Simon & Schuster Paperbacks.
Granzow, M. (2017). The production of public space in a small Canadian city: An analysis of spatial practices in the revitalizing of Galt Gardens. Space & Culture 20(3), 344-358.
Han, B-C. (2017). The crisis of freedom, Smart power, The mole and the snake & Biopolitics. In Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and the new technologies of power (E. Butler, Trans.) (pp. 1-21). Verso.
Harvey, D. (2005). The neoliberal state. In A brief history of neoliberalism (pp. 64-86). Oxford University Press
Hochschild, A. R. (1979). Emotion work, feeling rules, and social structure. The American Journal of Sociology 85(3), 551-575.
Laurendeau, J. (2020). "The stories that will make a difference aren't the easy ones": Outdoor recreation, the wilderness ideal, and complicating settler mobility. Sociology of Sport Journal (Ahead of Print), 1-11.
Little Bear, L. (2000). Jagged worldviews colliding. In Walking together: First Nations, Metis and Inuit perspectives in curriculum [Government of Alberta document], 1-9.
Manuel, A. (2017). Part 1: Getting to know you. In The reconciliation manifesto: Recovering the land, rebuilding the economy (pp. 48-74). James Lorimer & Co. Publishers.
Maynard, R. (2017). The black side of the mosaic: Slavery, racial capitalism and the making of contemporary Black poverty. In Policing Black lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present (pp. 50-82). Fernwood Publishing.
Rose, N. (2019). Is it all the fault of neoliberal capitalism? In Our psychiatric future: The politics of mental health (pp. 41-66). Polity Press.
Stanley, J. (2015). Introduction: The problem of propaganda. In How propaganda works (pp. 1-26). Princeton University Press.
Taylor, C. (1995). The politics of recognition. In Philosophical arguments (pp. 25-73). Harvard University Press.
Taylor, J.D. (2013). Neoliberalism, Debt, & Anxiety Machines. In Negative capitalism: Cynicism in the neoliberal era (pp. 49-88). Zero Books.
Tuck, E. (2009). Suspending damage: A letter to communities. Harvard Educational Review 79(3), 409-427.
Žižek, S. (2020). Welcome to the viral desert, The five stages of epidemics & The virus of ideology. In Pandemic! COVID-19 shakes the world (pp. 37-59). New York: Polity Press.
2. Your textbook; it will provide the sociological concepts and theories with which you will need to engage while writing your paper.
3. A piece of culture; for example, from mainstream news, personal, work, or family experience, social media, a video, a meme, an advertisement, an image, a movie, a video game, a book, etc.

This assignment is an opportunity for you to write in an area of interest by making exploratory connections between the course content, a piece of culture, and an academic reading. Your instructor is looking primarily for a demonstration that you can think and write sociologically as well as an indication that you can comprehend, critique, and clearly represent the views of others. (You must read carefully and plainly distinguish between your ideas and the ideas of others).

The length of your paper must be between 1,200-1,500 words (approximately 4-6 double-spaced pages, 12-point, Times New Roman or Calibri font-excluding the title page and References). If your paper is more than 1,500 words, you will get a 0. If your paper is less than 1,200 words, you will get a 0. These strict limitations are meant to ensure that your paper remains concise and pointed at the requirements of the assignment.

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