SOC185 week 5 Assignment Latest 2019

Week 5 Assignment: Essay – You Decide

Required Resources

Read/review the following resources for
this activity:

• Textbook:
Chapter 9

• Lesson

• Link
(website): Pew Research Center (Links to an external site.)

o Click
on the Social Trends tab.

o Click
on the Interactives tab.

o Locate
the following link: How Census Race Categories Have Changed Over Time

o Click
on “1790” to see two columns comparing the 1790 Census categories with
the 2010 Census categories.

• Minimum
of 4 outside scholarly sources

Instructions

In this week’s lesson, you learned about
the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent racial and ethnic categories. For this
assignment, consider the racial and ethnic categories used in the 2010 Census
with the four racial, ethnic, and gender categories used in the 1790 Census:
Free white males, free white females, all other free persons, slaves (Pew
Research Center, 2015). Analyze the concepts of race, ethnicity, and gender as
social constructs, just as sociologists do, by addressing the following:

1. Explain
how you might have been categorized by the 1790 Census and how you would have
been categorized by the 2010 Census.

2. Compare
and contrast the two potential categorizations and explain how this exercise
shows that the concepts of race, ethnicity, and even gender change over time.
Most importantly, explain how this exercise shows that the concepts of race,
ethnicity, and gender are social constructs.

3. Determine
and describe what ethnic, racial, and/or gender categories, if any, would be
best, in your view, for the 2020 Census or the 2030 Census, to most accurately
show the diversity of the U.S. population. What categories would be best to
reveal the segments of the U.S. population most vulnerable to racial, ethnic,
and/or gender inequalities or discrimination? What categories could be listed
in the 2020 Census or the 2030 Census that might best educate the U.S.
population on differences between race and ethnicity? Explain your decisions.

Include headings for each of the three main
sections of the paper:

• What
the Census Might Have Called Me

• Social
Constructs

• Better
Future Census Categories

Each of the three main sections of your
paper must contain scholarly support in the form of quotes or paraphrases with
respective citations from assigned reading (the textbook/lesson) and the
outside scholarly source that you identify on your own.

*This assignment is adapted from Glaser
(2018).

Writing Requirements (APA format)

• Length:
3-4 pages (not including references page)

• 1-inch
margins

• Double
spaced

• 12-point
Times New Roman font

• Running
header in the upper left of all pages

• Page
number in the upper right of all pages

• Minimum
of 3 headings (centered, bold, & title case)

• Parenthetical
in-text citations included and formatted in APA style

• References
page (minimum of 4 outside scholarly sources plus the textbook/lesson)

• Title
page not required

Grading

This activity will be graded based on Essay
(W5) Grading Rubric.

Course Outcomes (CO): 3, 4, 5, 6

Due Date: By 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday

References

Pew Research Center. (2015, June 10). What
Census calls us: A historical timeline. Retrieved from
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/interactives/multiracial-timeline/

Glaser, L.B. (2018, May 10). Sociology
department launches Active Learning Initiative project. Cornell Chronicle.
Retrieved from
http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/05/sociology-department-launches-active-learning-initiative-project

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