Students may pick any topic that deals with a social issue. Students are required to write a sociological paper that is analytical and critical. It is imperative to note that the writing of a sociological paper requires the primary use of scholarly sociological sources, such as sociological scholarly journals, sociological books, and sociological edited collections. The paper MUST include a minimum of FIVE sociological scholarly sources(books, scholarly journal articles) NOT including the course textbook and relevant course materials. The essay should be 4-5 pages in length, not including title page or bibliography, with one-inch margins, fonttimesnew roman, font size 12, double spaced and stapled. Do not triple or quadruple space betweenparagraphs. In doing so, you immediately signify to me that you have not met the minimum lengthrequirements for this paper. Moreover, triple and quadruple spacing between paragraphs is improperformatting and does not meet the standards of APA Style. This means your paper must have 4-5 pages of substantive content. Students are required to include a full bibliography of all materials used in the paper. Late papers will not be accepted without consent from the course director obtained PRIOR to the scheduled due date. Papers will NOT be accepted via e-mail. Papers will only be accepted in person in class.Please note that references that are NOT scholarly sources and will NOT count in your bibliography as scholarly sources include the following:newspaper articles (i.e., The Toronto Star, The Toronto Sun, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, etc.)magazine articles (Maclean’s, Newsweek, The Economist, etc.)encyclopedia references (including Wikipedia)dictionary references (including Oxford Dictionary and other dictionaries)non-scholarly websites, blogs, etc. Students should also note that government websites and statistical data are NOT scholarly sources and will NOT count as one of the five scholarly sources required for this paper. Government websites and statistical dataprovide information that is NOT scholarly and NOT analytical. Statistics denote a social trend but can beinterpreted in numerous and contradictory ways. Statistics themselves are devoid of analysis. Simply stating astatistic does not explain or explore any critical sociological analysis. Similarly, government websites stategovernment policy that is devoid of analysis, and usually reproduces mainstream stereotypes, assumptions andmisconceptions. Critical sociological analysis provides a critique of mainstream stereotypes and assumptions.The use of government data requires critical sociological analysis. Please note that these government websites and statistics include, but are not limited to the following:Statistics Canada-Ministry of Immigration and CitizenshipGovernment of Canada websiteGovernment of Ontario website Students must get approval from the course instructor for any internet sources they may wish to use. Scholarly journal articles can be retrieved on-line through the Ryerson Library journal abstracts website, Sociological Abstracts. Sources acquired on-line through Sociological Abstracts do NOT require permission. Students should also note that the research paper is a SOCIOLOGICAL paper that requires SOCIOLOGICAL analysis. Therefore, scholarly sources are required to be limited to sociological sources.For relevance of the topic within contemporary society, use of at least three sources from 2008 to 2016 is required.Scholarly sources that are NOT sociological and will NOT be counted as part of your FIVE required sociological scholarly sources include: ︎ Nursing journals and books ︎ Medical journals and books ︎ Economic journals and books ︎ Business journals and books ︎ Social work journals and books ︎ Psychology journals and books ︎ Social psychology journals and books ︎ Behavioural science journals and books ︎ Biology journals and books ︎ Genetics journals and booksScholarly sociological sources that are ACCEPTABLE are the following: ︎ Race and ethnicity journals and books ︎ Feminist and Women’s Studies journals and books ︎ Men’s Studies journals and books ︎ Queer Studies journals and books ︎ Men and Masculinity journals and books ︎ Sociology journals and books ︎ Mass Communications journals and books ︎ Criminology journals and books ︎ Sociology of Education journals and books ︎ Sociology of the Family journals and books ︎ Sociology of Work and Occupations journals and books ︎ Political science journals and books ︎Political economy journals and books ︎History journals and books Papers that do not include a minimum of five scholarly sociological sources will be assigned an automatic failing grade. Make sure that your sources and your analysis is sociological. Make sure that your sources areSOCIOLOGICAL and NOT psychological, medical or derived from popular mainstream media. Papers that arewritten from a psychological, medical or mainstream popular media perspective will automatically be assigned afailing grade. Students should never reference lecture notes in their papers. The reference of lecture notes in essays is improper and shows laziness on the part of the student for failure to research their topic properly. Lectures are based on scholarly sociological research. Any issue raised in lecture must be referenced in its original scholarly sociological source upon which the lecture is based. This means that students are required to seek out the original scholarly publication. Proper Referencing Style (APA), In-Text Citations, Bibliography and Grammar (5 marks) Both direct quotes and an author’s ideas must be referenced in your paper. Your paper should not have more than one or two (maximum) direct quotes. The paper should primarily be written in your own voice with social science citations crediting the scholars to whom those ideas belong. Use APAreferencing style. All referencing citations must include the author’s name and the year of the publication.References in your bibliography must include the author’s name, the year of the publication, the exact andcomplete title of the article/book, the publisher’s name, the city of publication, and (in the case of a journalarticle or book chapter) page numbers. Please note that essays that do not include the required FIVE scholarly sources (as defined in the terms above) will automatically be given a failing grade. Bibliographic References: The following are examples of proper bibliographic reference styles for books, edited collections, and journal articles. Book Reference Example:Miles, R. (1989). Racism. London: Routledge.Edited Collection Reference Example:Mitchell, A. &Karaian, L. (2005). Third Wave Feminisms. In Nancy Mandell (Ed.).Feminist Issues: Race, Class and Sexuality. Fourth Edition. Toronto: Pearson Education Canada Inc.Journal Article Reference Example:MacKinnon, C. A. (1983). Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward FeministJurisprudence. Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 8(4):635-658.
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