{"id":258,"date":"2017-09-22T11:15:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-2202-fall-2017\/?page_id=258"},"modified":"2019-09-25T16:34:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T20:34:45","slug":"citations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-1010-fall-2019\/citations\/","title":{"rendered":"Midterm 1 Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Answer one\u00a0<\/u><\/strong>of the following questions in approximately 4 (minimum) \u2013 6 (maximum) double-spaced pages.\u00a0Papers should be in 12-point Times New Roman or similar typeface, with one-inch margins on all sides.\u00a0 Answers should be well organized, well written, and thoroughly proofed.\u00a0 Citations should be either MLA or Chicago Style format.\u00a0 Use telling (but not too lengthy) quotes.\u00a0\u00a0 A bibliography is not necessary for this paper, as your answers should only draw on course readings.\u00a0 The essay should address the main question (the question in boldface<\/strong>) and any of the ancillary questions that will allow you to build your case.\u00a0 Your paper must have a clear, focused argument that unambiguously answers the question.<\/p>\n

You must upload your draft to your OneDrive folder by 5 pm\u00a0<\/strong>on Friday, October 4<\/strong>.\u00a0 Final versions of your paper are due by 5 pm\u00a0<\/strong>on Friday, October 11<\/strong>.\u00a0 Late papers (papers submitted after 5:15 pm) will result in a grade reduction (one step for each hour late: (i.e., A to A-, C- to D, etc.).\u00a0 Papers submitted after 11:29 am\u00a0<\/strong>on Saturday, October 12<\/strong>will not be accepted (except in emergency cases).\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

QUESTION ONE<\/span>: \u00a0<\/strong>In our discussion of Anderson’s “iconic ghetto,” we also considered how race and gender stereotypes mark other groups. Building on interviews collected from five\u00a0<\/strong>Bowdoin students, conceptualize your perceptual category for understanding how a different social group (racial, gendered, sexual, able-bodied, international) navigate stereotypes related to their identity.<\/strong>\u00a0 You will need to develop a name for your category (“the iconic _________”) and highlight characteristics\/stereotypes of that identity, supporting your claims with evidence from your interview.\u00a0 You may also draw on your own experiences if you fit the characteristics of that selected category).\u00a0 How might your concept compare to Anderson’s “iconic ghetto”?<\/strong>\u00a0 How do people navigating this category find themselves enabled or constrained by the stereotypes mapped onto their bodies in various spaces? \u00a0What aspects of these identities are taken for granted?\u00a0 How do people challenge these perceptions?\u00a0 In what ways might individuals trade on other identity categories to manage these perceptions<\/p>\n

QUESTION TWO:<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>In Racial Formation in the United States<\/em>, Michael Omi and Howard Winant describe race as a social convention that various reactionary and progressive political forces try to interpret to their advantage.Despite multiple challenges that humans are 99.9% biologically similar, Dorothy Roberts argues that the need to scientifically prove racial categories persists.\u00a0 Thinking of these two readings together, consider how the new scientific technologies reflect Omi and Winant’s theory of racial formation.\u00a0 To put in a different way, how do we see modern science as a “political force” that reinforces and perpetuates race and racism?<\/strong>\u00a0 In what ways does this new science reflect legacies of old definitions of race?\u00a0 How does this new science play into contemporary interpretations of race and racism?\u00a0 To answer this question, you might also think about how the scholars we read in class conceptualize race and racism.<\/p>\n

QUESTION THREE:<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>In White Kids\u00a0<\/em>and Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t<\/em>, Margaret Hagerman and Jennifer Sherman introduce us to people who believe that their circumstances do not necessarily perpetuate racial inequality\/racism. Imagine that either Margaret Hagerman or Jennifer Sherman invited you to speak about racism to their selected community.\u00a0 How would you go about explaining contemporary racism to these communities?<\/strong>\u00a0 How might you put their cultural identity, their environmental circumstances, and\/or their definitions of the situation (Thomas) into context with the argument that racism and racial ideologies persist?\u00a0 To answer this question, you will need to put Hagerman or Sherman into conversation with at least one additional reading we have already explored.<\/p>\n

QUESTION FOUR:<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>In our class discussions, many of you suggested that Bowdoin is becoming less of a “white space” and more of a “cosmopolitan canopy,” “racially diverse islands of civility located in a virtual sea of racial segregation” (Anderson 2015: 11).\u00a0Read Anderson’s “The Cosmopolitan Canopy”<\/a>\u00a0 and consider whether Bowdoin contains anything that resembles cosmopolitan canopy.<\/strong>\u00a0 If so, what does the cosmopolitan canopy resemble?\u00a0 What activities take place there?\u00a0 Does it exist as a stable cosmopolitan canopy, or does the racial composition shift over time?\u00a0 If not, what factors prevent Bowdoin from becoming a cosmopolitan canopy?\u00a0 What conditions must be met for space at Bowdoin to become a cosmopolitan canopy?\u00a0 To answer this question, you will want to select a space\/spaces on campus and complete at least three days of sustained observation (or conduct interviews with five people) to support your claims either way.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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