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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Activity Assignment 4 (option 3)

Due date:

The day of the fourth midterm

How to turn in:

Turn in a copy to Turnitin.com on the day we take midterm 4.

Point value:

This activity is worth 20 points.

Considerations:

You can read each other’s papers. However, simply copying and editing another person’s paper is considered plagiarism and you will, at a minimum, get a zero on this assignment. Turnitin.com is very good at catching plagiarizers. Please do not attempt.

Resubmission policy:

Any paper that receives a score of 19 or less (93%) can be revised and resubmitted. However, the resubmit option can only be used once. And the maximum score possible for a paper that is resubmitted is 19. There is a section on Turnitin.com where you can turn in a resubmission. You will have until the next exam to resubmit. No late resubmissions will be accepted.

Assignment:

Go to a Justice Summit event (http://mbabolitionists.org/). It is from November 15 to 17. Write an essay about what you learned.

Grading rubric:

1. essay demonstrates that you went to a Justice Summit event

2. essay demonstrates the sociological imagination

3. it is well written

3. it is at least one page, double-spaced (at least 300 words)

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Activity Assignment 2 (option 3) – crime, due the day of the second midterm

Activity Assignment 2 (Option 3)

Soc 201A

Due date: The day of the second midterm

How to turn in: Turn in a copy to Turnitin.com on the day we take midterm 2.

Point value: This activity is worth 20 points.

Considerations:

We will discuss this topic in class and you are encouraged to talk about this topic with your classmates outside of class. You can even read each other’s papers. However, simply copying and editing another person’s paper is considered plagiarism and you will, at a minimum, get a zero on this assignment. Turnitin.com is very good at catching plagiarizers. Please do not attempt.

Resubmission policy:

Any paper that receives a score of less than 19 (93%) can be revised and resubmitted. However, the resubmit option can only be used once. And the maximum score possible for a paper that is resubmitted is 19. There is a section on Turnitin.com where you can turn in a resubmission. You will have until the next exam to resubmit. No late resubmissions will be accepted.

Assignment:

Review the powerpoint slides on crime—both parts.

Describe a crime that you have knowledge of—either from the media or from accounts that you have personally heard about.

Apply at least two sociological theoretical perspectives to the crime you just described. Here is the list of theoretical perspectives you can choose from: