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Paper 1 Assignment Family in the News
100 points
Purpose:
For this Paper assignment you will find and interpret from a sociological perspective a news article on a family-related topic that interests you.
Knowledge: After doing this assignment you will:
· • Understand how the sociological perspective and the public and private family concepts can be used to understand everyday family phenomena.
· • Recognize how existing sociological theories and knowledge can be used to understand new phenomena.
Skills: After doing this assignment you will be able to:
· • Articulate how sociology can be used to interpret observed family phenomena.
· • Explain what theory is and articulate one specific sociological theory of family.
· • Use academic conventions to write, argue, and cite.
· • Integrate ideas and support from sociological works.
Tasks:
Find a news article published since 2000 in English in a national paper that reports on or speaks about a family phenomenon, from anywhere in the world.
The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian
, are acceptable sources. Check with the instructor if you select an article from a source different from this list.
Please note: as a UW student you have free access to many news articles through the UW libraries. For continued and free access to an article you find say through an internet search, locate and use it for free via the UW libraries’ system. (Sometimes the articles located via the library databases may have slightly different titles or publication dates.) Utilize your UW librarians, via chat or in person, to help you locate free access to your article.
Read the article, taking notes on what you think may be sociologically relevant points. Pay special attention to details that might relate to ideas and social developments that we have explored.
1. Write an 800+ word double-spaced 12-point font paper, labeled with a title and your name and date, in which you: o Summarize very briefly what the news article reports on
2. o Demonstrate your ability to apply sociological concepts and to the phenomenon being reported on in your news article. At minimum:
3.
1. ▪ Define and explain the sociological perspective, the role of theory in sociology, one specific theory, and the concepts of public and private family.
2. ▪ Apply the above to your article.
3.
4. o Integrate ideas, discussion, examples from a minimum of 3 course materials (at least 2 readings and 1 lecture).
5.
Create in-text citations any time you use ideas, words, findings from other sources, using APA citation style, like this: (Qian and Lichter 2011). If you use a particularly well-stated quote, you must use quotation marks and a parenthetical citation with a page number, like this: (Cherlin 2013, p. 428). Limit your use of direct quotes to two.
Include a Reference section or page at the end of your paper that has full bibliographic entries in APA style that correspond to the-text citations in your paper.
Check the paper against the grading rubric in Canvas.
Label the paper’s file as SOC352P1YourlastnameFirstinitial and save as a x or similar file (pdf’s will not be accepted).
Submit to Paper 1 Assignment in Canvas before you move on to Lesson 4.
To submit your assignment:
· • Use the +Submit Assignment link located in the top right corner.
· • Click the Choose File button to find and select the saved document file.
· • Click the Submit Assignment button to turn in your assignment.
Criteria for Success:
An example of an appropriate article for Paper 1:
https://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/a-stay-at-home-dads-dilemma-when-the-marriage-ends/?smid=pl-share
Kantor, J. and J. Silver-Greenberg. (2013). A stay-at-home dad’s dilemma, when marriage ends. Motherlode blog. New York Times. (http://nyti.ms/1avAuc8)
See the attached rubric for criteria for success. The explanations for the ratings on the rubric are the following:
· • Sophisticated: The criteria have been met with an outstanding, creative, sophisticated argument, presentation, skill, understanding.
· • Developed: The criteria have been met with a fine, developed argument, presentation, skill, understanding. There is room for more sophistication.
· • Emerging: The criteria have been met with an emerging or minimal argument, presentation, skill, understanding. There is room to indicate a more developed level.
· • Absent or inadequate: The criteria have not been met adequately or at all
Paper 1 Assignment Family in the News
Read:
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Kelly, J.B. & Emery, R.E. (2003).
Children’s adjustment following divorce: Risk and resilience perspectives.
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(Links to an external site.)
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Family Relations
, 52 (4).
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FAMILY IN THE NEWS article: Kantor, J. & Silver-Greenberg, J. (2013 Dec. 12).
A stay-at-home dad’s dilemma, when the marriage ends.
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(Links to an external site.)
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Motherlode blog. The New York Times. Retrieved from
http://nyti.ms/1avAuc8
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(Links to an external site.)
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(You may need the library’s UW portal to get access:
https://alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/kjtuig/CP71306229390001451
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(Links to an external site.)
Paper 1 Assignment Family in the News
Criteria
Ratings
Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
Introduces paper clearly by introducing topic, news article, theory, or some element of the paper, and also mentions paper’s objective(s)
10 pts
Sophisticated
9 pts
Developed
7 pts
Emerging
Minimum passing score=6
0 pts
Absent or inadequate
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
Summarizes briefly the family phenomenon in the news article
10 pts
Sophisticated
9 pts
Developed
7 pts
Emerging
Minimum passing score=6
0 pts
Absent or inadequate
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
Defines theory and indicates understanding of theory’s role in sociology
10 pts
Sophisticated
9 pts
Developed
7 pts
Emerging
Minimum passing score=6
0 pts
Absent or inadequate
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
Demonstrates understanding of one theory in sociology of family and applies it to illuminate the family phenomenon in the news article
20 pts
Sophisticated
18 pts
Developed
15 pts
Emerging
Minimum passing score=12
0 pts
Absent or inadequate
20 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
Explains the soc. idea of family as a public/private good and relates how this idea is reflected (or not) in the news article or by the phenomenon related in the news article.
15 pts
Sophisticated
13 pts
Developed
10 pts
Emerging
Minimum passing score=9
0 pts
Absent or inadequate
15 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
Effectively uses course materials to offer other points of discussion of the family phenomenon (minimum of 3 different sources, may occur throughout the paper)
10 pts
Sophisticated
9 pts
Developed
7 pts
Emerging
Minimum passing score=6
0 pts
Absent or inadequate
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
Concludes paper effectively by bringing the discussion back to the paper’s beginnings, or by bringing together the paper’s conclusions
10 pts
Sophisticated
9 pts
Developed
7 pts
Emerging
Minimum passing score=6
0 pts
Absent or inadequate
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
Organizes paper carefully (logic, transitions)
5 pts
Sophisticated
4 pts
Developed
3 pts
Emerging
0 pts
Absent or inadequate
5 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
Edits paper carefully and other paper mechanics are sound (no typos, grammar mistakes)
5 pts
Sophisticated
4 pts
Developed
3 pts
Emerging
0 pts
Absent or inadequate
5 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
Cites appropriately using APA format, both within the paper with in-text citations and in the corresponding References section
5 pts
Sophisticated
4 pts
Developed
3 pts
Emerging
0 pts
Absent or inadequate
5 pts
Total Points: 100
For this Paper assignment you will find and interpret from a sociological perspective a news article on a family-related topic that interests you.
Knowledge: After doing this assignment you will:
·
Understand how the sociological perspective and the public and private family concepts can be used to understand everyday family phenomena.
· Recognize how existing sociological theories and knowledge can be used to understand new phenomena.
Skills: After doing this assignment you will be able to:
· Articulate how sociology can be used to interpret observed family phenomena.
· Explain what theory is and articulate one specific sociological theory of family.
· Use academic conventions to write, argue, and cite.
· Integrate ideas and support from sociological works.
·
Find a news article published since 2000 in English in a national paper that reports on or speaks about a family phenomenon, from anywhere in the world.
The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, are acceptable sources. Check with the instructor if you select an article from a source different from this list.
Please note: as a UW student you have free access to many news articles through the UW libraries. For continued and free access to an article you find say through an internet search, locate and use it for free via the UW libraries’ system. (Sometimes the articles located via the library databases may have slightly different titles or publication dates.) Utilize your UW librarians, via chat or in person, to help you locate free access to your article.
· Read the article, taking notes on what you think may be sociologically relevant points. Pay special attention to details that might relate to ideas and social developments that we have explored.
· Write an 800+ word double-spaced 12-point font paper, labeled with a title and your name and date, in which you:
· Summarize very briefly what the news article reports on
· Demonstrate your ability to apply sociological concepts and to the phenomenon being reported on in your news article. At minimum:
· Define and explain the sociological perspective, the role of theory in sociology, one specific theory, and the concepts of public and private family.
· Apply the above to your article.
· Integrate ideas, discussion, examples from a minimum of 3 course materials (at least 2 readings and 1 lecture).
·
Create in-text citations any time you use ideas, words, findings from other sources, using APA citation style, like this: (Qian and Lichter 2011). If you use a particularly well-stated quote, you must use quotation marks and a parenthetical citation with a page number, like this: (Cherlin 2013, p. 428). Limit your use of direct quotes to two.
· Include a Reference section or page at the end of your paper that has full bibliographic entries in APA style that correspond to the-text citations in your paper.
· Check the paper against the grading rubric in Canvas.
· Label the paper’s file as SOC352P1YourlastnameFirstinitial and save as a x or similar file (pdf’s will not be accepted).
· Submit to Paper 1 Assignment in Canvas before you move on to Lesson 4.
To submit your assignment:
· Use the +Submit Assignment link located in the top right corner.
· Click the Choose File button to find and select the saved document file.
· Click the Submit Assignment button to turn in your assignment.
Criteria for Success:
An example of an appropriate article for Paper 1:
Kantor, J. and J. Silver-Greenberg. (2013).
A stay-at-home dad’s dilemma, when marriage ends
. Motherlode blog. New York Times. (http://nyti.ms/1avAuc8)
See the attached rubric for criteria for success. The explanations for the ratings on the rubric are the following:
· Sophisticated: The criteria have been met with an outstanding, creative, sophisticated argument, presentation, skill, understanding.
· Developed: The criteria have been met with a fine, developed argument, presentation, skill, understanding. There is room for more sophistication.
· Emerging: The criteria have been met with an emerging or minimal argument, presentation, skill, understanding. There is room to indicate a more developed level.
· Absent or inadequate: The criteria have not been met adequately or at all.
Sociological Perspective of Family
University of Washington
February 9, 2022
A family is the basis of a unit of a society composed of people related by blood, marriage, and adoption who live in a single household, communicating together in their relevant social positions. Siblings, parents, and children are examples of social positions. A larger family should be differentiated from a residence, including borders and roomers living in the same house. At its most basic, a family comprises a parent and their children. The role of the family in providing emotional and mental security, especially through the comfort, love, and friendship that living together fosters between partners and, by extension, between them and their kids. Various structure or family types include nuclear, single, and extended families. Every person wishes to have a family at some point in their lives. However, some end up delaying the process. The paper focuses on structural functionalism as a sociological perspective and private-public families.
“I’m scared I’ve left it too late to have kids’: the men haunted by their biological clocks,” by Sirin Kale, presents the worries that men feel when they delay in playing their biological function. The article explains the deepest anxieties that men feel on matters of procreation. An example is Connor, 38, who has no house and people to call his family. Connor looks at his future without something of his own and goes to the extent of worrying about the quality of his sperm at that time. The reasons for such worries include reducing the quality of sperms and DNA damage at that point (Kale, 2021). Like women, men should be aware of their fertility window despite being able to bear children at old ages.
A sociological perspective is a kind that examines society objectively and without bias. It generalizes personal reasons and actions into trends and categories. The functionalist, the conflict, and symbolic interactionism are the three main sociological perspectives in sociology (Mooney, Knox, & Schacht, 2012). The perspectives are theories in sociology that help explain why society works in a specific manner and phenomena. An example of a sociological theory is the structural functionalism theory, which focuses on various social institutions and their role in an individual’s life. The theory assumes that society comprises interconnected parts in harmony to keep the whole in a delicate balance and social equilibrium. It stresses society’s interdependency by concentrating on how each component is influenced and shaped by others.
A public family comprises one or two grown-ups who are distantly related, partnering, or shared parenthood and are caring for dependents, as well as the dependent family members themselves. A private family comprises more than two people who share an emotional bond that they expect to last indefinitely or, as in the particular instance of a parent and child, until the child turns adulthood and who usually share a home and share their earnings and residential labor. The private family is where we spend most of our personal lives, while the public family deals with larger societal issues like caring for the frail elderly, the rise in divorce, and childbirth outside marriage.
According to structural-functional theory, the worries of men like Connor in the article are important for a well-functioning society. The family as a social institute plays an important part in the reproduction, nurturing, and socialization of children (Mooney et al., 2012). From a sociological perspective, men have a biological role and function to reproduce and provide for their families. The provision area is what most men focus upon; hence end up giving birth very late. According to the theory, the purpose of reproduction is a social replacement for the members that have died (Harris et al., 2011). Therefore, these men have to fulfill their purpose and function of procreation in society.
The article presents both private and public family aspects of the participants’ issues. The private family refers to an individual’s personal life, which rotates mostly on their individual choices. In the case of Connor, the decision to wait for years to have a baby represents a private family issue he decides on with his girlfriend because of financial constraints. However, his life also demonstrates the idea of a public family, which is childbirth. Most of the men in the article are concerned about their age and viability to have children. Kale (2021) explains that men also experience the social pressures of aging and parenting. These are examples of public families that people are subjected to and the roles they have to play.
Family is the basic unit of society, and as an institution, it plays an important role in reinforcing societal norms and behaviors. A major sociological perspective that explains the functions of a family is the functionalism theory. The theory also expounds on the roles and positions of individuals, such as men, reproduction. The private family setup consists of the roles and choices of an individual, but a public family refers to the extended roles of an individual to society, such as child rearing.
Reference
Arruzza, C. (2016). Functionalist, Determinist, Reductionist: Social Reproduction Feminism and its Critics. Science and Society, 80(1).
https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/pdf/10.1521/siso.2016.80.1.9
Harris, I. D., Fronczak, C., Roth, L., & Meacham, R. B. (2011). Fertility and the aging male. Reviews in urology, 13(4), e184–e190.
Kale, S. (2021, October 28). ‘I’m scared I’ve left it too late to have kids’: The men haunted by their biological clocks.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/28/scared-late-kids-men-biological-clocks-ageing-procreation-anxieties
Mooney, L. A., Knox, D., & Schacht, C. (2012). Understanding social problems. Cengage Learning.
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Introduces paper clearly by introducing topic, news article, theory, or some element of the paper, and also mentions paper’s objective(s)
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Sophisticated 9 pts
Developed 7 pts
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Explains the soc. idea of family as a public/private good and relates how this idea is reflected (or not) in the news article or by the phenomenon related in the news article. view longer description |
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Effectively uses course materials to offer other points of discussion of the family phenomenon (minimum of 3 different sources, may occur throughout the paper) view longer description |
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Concludes paper effectively by bringing the discussion back to the paper’s beginnings, or by bringing together the paper’s conclusions view longer description |
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Edits paper carefully and other paper mechanics are sound (no typos, grammar mistakes) view longer description |
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Cites appropriately using APA format, both within the paper with in-text citations and in the corresponding References section view longer description |
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