Optional take-home essay for midterm 4

Soc 201A
Midterm 4
Spring 2012
Optional Take-Home Essay

For Midterm 4, you have the option of answering a take-home essay question on Code of the Street. If you choose to do so, you will not be able to answer the multiple choice questions concerning Code of the Street, Chapter 4 on the exam.

Your essay is due the day of the exam before coming in to take the exam, and must be submitted through Turnitin. The instructions on using Turnitin are on the syllabus. Do NOT work together on this assignment. This essay should be written completely independently. Anyone caught plagiarizing will get a zero on this portion of the exam, at minimum.


Here is the take-home question:

Referring to Chapter 4 in Code of the Street, according to Elijah Anderson, why is the teen pregnancy rate so high in inner-city Philadelphia? Discuss at least the following: poverty, the “game” that young men play, the “dream” that young women have, “baby clubs,” and the influence of peers. This question is worth 13 points. It should be typed and double-spaced. The suggested length is two pages.

"The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life" by Arlie Hochschild

Discussion questions:

What is the work-family speed-up? What is causing it?

What does Hochschild mean when she says that work is becoming like home and home is becoming like work? What is causing this?

Study guide questions:

By “speed up,” Hochschild is describing what?

What are the responses to the “speed up” described by Hochschild?

Among
the many hypotheses Hochschild offers about why many people accept the
“speed-up”, which did she REJECT?
 
The shifting focus of loyalties and commitments
can be attributed to what?

Fall 2010 Term Final Exams Schedule

Fall 2010 Term Final Exams Schedule

http://academic.cuesta.edu/pim/pub/pdfs_fall2010/finals_fall2010.pdf

Classes scheduled on:

MW 9:30 a.m. -- MONDAY, December 13 at 9:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

MW 12:30 p.m. -- WEDNESDAY, December 15 at 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
 
TR 10:30 a.m. -- THURSDAY, December 16 at 10:30 to 11:45 (NOT 9:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. as indicated on the final exam schedule in the course catalog)

TR 12:00 p.m. -- THURSDAY, December 16 at 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Democracy and socialism

Democracy and socialism have nothing in
common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy
seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and
servitude.

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Victoria Woodhull

‎"I am a free lover, I have an inalienable,
constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short
a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please." --Victoria
Woodhull

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Optional Implicit Association Test Survey

Optional Implicit Association Test Survey

If you complete this activity, you will receive one extra credit point.

This activity will take you about one hour. You will take two Implicit Association Tests. After you take one test, you will answer some questions. You will then take another test, then answer some more questions. One concerns race and the other weight.

Surveys must be completed by September 30, 2010.

MAKE SURE YOU TAKE BOTH THE WEIGHT AND RACE IAT TESTS AND ANSWER THE TWO SETS OF QUESTIONS ON THE sociology.net16.net/limesurvey SITE.

If you were born on an even day of the month, click below and follow the instructions,

Even: http://sociology.net16.net/limesurvey/index.php?sid=78566&lang=en

If you were born on an odd day of the month, click below and follow the instructions,

Odd: http://sociology.net16.net/limesurvey/index.php?sid=96255&lang=en