BEFORE YOU BID: My Request to you…
PLEASE MAKE YOUR WRITIING SOUND AS NATURAL AND NORMAL AS POSSIBLE. I AM NOT A SCHOLAR, ALTHOUGH YOU ARE, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT I NEED A WRITER WHO HAS A NATURAL-SOUNDING WRITING STYLE APPROPIATE FOR A COLLEGE STUDENT.
Instructions:
CSUN – SOC 468 – EXAM 3 Paper Topic Menu Pick ONE of the following topics and respond within a minimum of three (3) and a maximum of eight (8) type-written, double-spaced pages, for a maximum of 300 points towards your final grade in the course. Proof-read your essay carefully (do not rely on the spell-checker). Properly cite the source of any direct quote, paraphrase or summary of another author’s ideas, concepts, and arguments in-text (e.g., Goffman, 1959 in CCST: 1061) and provide a ‘Works Cited” final section. Make sure that any work you cite in-text also appears in your “Works Cited” and vice-versa. The exam is due on (OR BEFORE): May 17 @11:59pm.
PLEASE READ THROUGH EACH OF THE TWO PROMPTS, CHOOSE ONE THAT YOU FEEL MOST COMFORTABLE/BETTER TO WRITE A MINIMUM 3-PAGE ESSAY, APA FORMAT AND 12PT FONT.
**Sources for each prompt are attached in the files section.
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1. How do you “do” being ‘man/woman’ (N.B. “to ‘do’ gender is not always to live up to normative conceptions of femininity or masculinity; it is to engage in behavior at the risk of gender assessment.” West and Zimmerman: Doing Gender)? How do you enact, portray, and realize your status, position or social place (Cf Goffman, 1959 in CCST: 1059) as a ‘man’ or ‘woman’? How do you hold yourself and others accountable as a (presumed) member of one or the/an other ‘sex class’ or ‘sex category’? Discuss, drawing as necessary from original sources and secondary analyses and commentary in our readings, from class discussions, online sources (e.g. West and Zimmerman: Doing Gender, Erving Goffman: The Arrangement between the Sexes , Erving Goffman: Gender Display), and, of course, your personal experiences
Sources:
West and Zimmerman Doing Gender
Goffman The Arrangement between the sexes
Goffman Gender Display
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15. “The existence of racism does not require that there are races; it requires the belief that there are races.” What does believing “that there are races” entail? Is “the belief that there are races” sufficient for racism to exist? For racism not to exist, must belief that races exist disappear? Discuss, drawing as necessary from original sources and secondary explanations and commentary in our readings, class discussions, online resources (e.g. Winant: Race and Race Theory, Race and Racism: A Symposium, Winant: Rethinking Race in Brazil, Amanda Lewis – “What Group?” Studying Whites and Whiteness in the Era of “Color-Blindness”, and/or additional readings provided through the Canvas site for the course), personal experiences, etc.
Sources:
Winant – Race and Race Theory
Race and Racism – A Symposium
Winant – Rethinking Race in Brazil
Lewis Whites and Whiteness in the Era of Color-Blindness