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Homework: Cultural Anthropology

Essay Prompt:

Throughout this course we have explored how categories of difference such as race, ethnicity, sex/gender, class, and sexuality are socially constructed. Furthermore, we have also covered how the processes that create these categories of difference also create, maintain, and reproduce systems of inequality.

For this homework you should describe the social-cultural processes that construct categories of difference and systems of inequality. Explain how one of these categories and systems are constructed, maintained, and reproduced. Finally, discuss ways that these categories and systems are and can be challenged in daily life. You should use concepts and material from the textbook, lectures, course material, your own experiences, and outside sources from a minimum of two peer reviewed articles.

Purpose:

This homework is designed to assess your knowledge and skills. Anthropology provides us with knowledge and skills to help us understand what it means to be a human being. This knowledge includes better understanding our existence as both biological organisms and social beings. An anthropological sensibility helps us challenge our taken for granted notions of what is natural and what is socially created in the world. The purpose of this essay is: one, assess your knowledge of basic anthropological concepts and theories and two, apply this knowledge in everyday life.

In addition, this homework is designed to help you develop critical thinking skills to challenge assumptions, think reflexively on your own and others' positionality, consider alternatives, and reflect on the possibility of challenging and effecting change in dominant structures of inequality. The homework will also help you develop the important skill of formal writing. The ability to present a clear and well-organized written argument is an important skill that you will benefit from in any future career or endeavors.

I would like to acknowledge Dr Yang Cai and Dr Benjamin Lammers (both at Caldwell University), as well as TILT Higher Ed, for examples in TILT (Transparency in Learning and Teaching) formatting used in these homework guidelines.

Task and Requirements:

In your essay you should describe in general the social-cultural processes that construct categories of difference (race, ethnicity, class, gender/sex, sexuality etc.) and systems of inequality (social stratification). Then explain how one of these categories and systems are specifically constructed, maintained, and reproduced. Finally, discuss ways that these categories and systems are, and can be, challenged in daily life. You should use concepts and material from the textbooks, lectures, course material, your own experiences, and outside sources from a minimum of two peer reviewed articles.

Before you start writing it would be helpful to:

Review the material in the textbook and lecture notes on the social construction of categories of difference and stratification.

You should consider what concepts, terms, theories, and controversies we have covered relating to the essay task.

For instance:

Nature (biology) versus Nurture (Social/Cultural Construction).

Culture

Social Stratification

A. Structural Functionalism, Symbolism/Symbolic Interactionism, Conflict Theory
B. Racism, Structural/Institutional inequality/racism etc.

Intersectionality

A. Choose which specific category of difference and system of inequality you want to focus on.

B. Decide what your main thesis or arguments are going to be, remember this essay is not just descriptive. It requires analysis and taking a position.

C. Find a least two peer-reviewed articles to use in your essay.

D. Go through the readings, notes, and articles for primary and secondary sources forquotes to support and/or illustrate the points you are making in your essay.

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