Field Analysis

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Assignment Instructions

Field Analysis

Due: 3/17/20

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to recognize sociological concepts at play in your lived experience.   Keeping a field log of your social and institutional experiences for one day, you will critically discuss how your daily life is shaped and constrained by society. This will allow you to engage with many of the sociological concepts learned in class.

Writing expectations

The paper should be 4-6 typed pages, double-spaced, 12-point font, with 1″ margins.  Remember to use APA format to cite and reference your sources.

A presentation that offers additional assistance in completing the assignment is available at

Instructions

1) Observation 

Create a field log ().  For one day, observe and record the key interactions and institutions in your lived experience.   Starting with waking up, who is the first person you talk to?  What do you do next- take family members to school, go to the gym, go to work and interact with coworkers?  Throughout the day you will take on different roles by interacting with different people and in different situations, and be in contact with different social institutions (education, government, health, etc). Type or photograph your field log and submit it with your written Assignment.

2) Application

 

Try to wait one or more days before starting this step.  Revisit your field log and apply sociological analysis to your observations.

  • Describe how our day is shaped and constrained by social norms. 
  • Analyze how at least four sociological concepts learned in class (eg. roles, institutions, interactions, impression management, stage theory, emotional labor) apply to your field log observations.  This part of the paper should not be focused on the general social norms you described earlier, dig in with specific concepts in this from our text (refrain from using dictionaries).
  • For at least two of the concepts, find and incorporate an appropriate source that highlights how sociologists study this concept in everyday society (for example, emotional labor in the restaurant industry).  Not sure what constitutes an appropriate source?  See our Announcement on this in the classroom- tips and a learning module are provided there.  For example, we discussed gender socialization:
    • In an article by Crespi (2011) that studied gender socialization and gender roles within the family, results showed that a cross-gender relationship between fathers and daughters, mothers and sons has emerged as significant in determining traditional and non-traditional gender attitudes. The research suggested that the relationship with the parent of the opposite sex could be a strong factor in reducing stereotyped attitudes regarding gender roles (Crespi, 2011). *Use a different example in your paper, the purpose here is to show your research skills rather than repeat my research skills.*

3)      Reflection

Reflect on your role as a larger part of society (i.e. your motives, instincts, feelings, and/or structural constraints).  Discuss ways other people affected you and the ways you affected others in the social experiences of your day.

Sample Field Log

Below is a brief field log to give you an idea of the social interactions and institutions you might look for in your day.  With the observations are sample course concepts that relate to the observations.  Be creative in exploring and applying concepts- we will all apply concepts differently even if the scenes we observe are very similar.

5:45 am: Wake up, interact with children.

Gender roles, nuclear family, folkways

6:30 am: Interact with spouse and children.  Eat breakfast, run, shower.

8:00 am: Arrive at the airport, check-in interaction with airline customer service; interaction with TSA.

Social structure, bureaucracy, norms, mores, social control

9:00 am: Wait with other passengers to board the flight; purchase a drink at a coffee shop; employees have a tip jar; a family sitting close by is watching the news and commenting on what they think is wrong with other cultures.

Emotional labor, ethnocentrism, Piagets stages of development

9:30 am: On a flight with family having a difficult time with small children; flight attendant offers to help them. 

Emotional labor, gender roles, family

12 pm: Arrive at destination airport; drive two hours to see extended family.  Along the road, there are farmers with fruit stands.  See homeless person asking for assistance in exchange for work. 

Poverty, inequality

4 pm: Extended family arrives for potluck dinner; look at family photos together and share family memories.  Watch evening news-  local robbery and assault.

Social deviance, material culture

6 pm: Stop at church to meet family friends, see a bible study group inside; lots of religious symbols; someone remarks on a new church being built to accommodate a different racial group.

Religion, race, monotheism

This course has Resubmission status enabled to help you if you realize you submitted an incorrect or blank file, or if you need to submit multiple documents as part of your Assignment.  Resubmission of an Assignment after it is graded, to attempt a better grade, is not permitted.

This assignment meets the following course objectives:

  • Apply a sociological perspective to the social world.
  • Analyze contemporary social issues using the sociological imagination and use sociological theories and concepts to analyze everyday life.
  • Recognize and define the social structure and social interaction
  • Explain the reciprocal relationship in the influence between societal and structural factors, individual behavior and the self’s development

Week 1 Reflection

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 Provide a 300+ word  narrative of insight you gained this week.  Remember that it is not a  summary of the week’s content, but an application of one or more items  that are relevant to corporate entrepreneurial endeavors.  It can be  something from the text readings, discussions with others or from the  research assignments. 

Help Me With This…

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Select and research a contemporary political, social, religious, or business leader to learn about how this leader or organization employs Greenleaf’s principles of servant leadership to motivate, influence, and lead others.

Write a 500-750-word paper that addresses the following components:

  • Summary of the principles of servant leadership employed by the leader to motivate, inspire, and lead others;
  • Specific examples to illustrate the leader’s application of servant leadership principles;
  • Information about the unique way the leader exerts influence and inspires followership; and
  • Discussion of what would you seek to emulate or see more of in your own organization from both the people who lead you and the leadership you provide to others.

Documented Repot

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Documented Reports (DRs) are three-page reports students write to discuss research critically, practice one or more research writing skills, and explore possible subjects for a final research paper.  For this assignment:

  • Read these sources for the assignment instructions and to help you find and cite the two database articles you need in addition to the M3 assigned article you wrote about in Discussion 3:
  • Type DR3 on the to format your paper correctly; use one of the citations from the Works Cited page for the assigned article you evaluated and delete the rest.
  • Write and add citations to the Works Cited list for:
    • A related article from Academic Search Complete, and
    • A related article from another database
    • Retain alphabetical order in the citations
  • Use one or more of these resources to help you write the citations:

 

Choose logos if your argument will require a presentation or summary of facts and an objective, reasonable tone.

  • Use third person address or even passive voice
  • Select objective and neutral diction to present the facts
  • Try to use a reasonable sounding three-part series

Choose pathos if you want the reflective to appeal through or to share emotion commonly held beliefs.

  • Use inclusive address: we and our
  • Select fair but subjective diction
  • Try to use a highly invested four-or-more-part series

Choose ethos is you have a personal investment in the subject and wish to express a tone of assuredness and authority.

  • Use first person address: I; my
  • Use a mixture of objective and subject diction to both commitment and reasonability
  • Try to use authoritative, didactic-sounding two-part serials

For this journal entry, address each of the following prompts:

  • Submit a draft of the conclusion for DR3. Try to reiterate the problematic solution or thesis the articles in DR3 share. Expand on this problem with a reflection of your own using an appeal of logos, pathos or ethos.
  • In a separate paragraph, explain why you feel the appeal you chose (logos, pathos, or ethos) was more effective than the others.

 

Plan on reading the set of articles more than once for 1) comprehension and enjoyment; 2) comparison/contrast of topics; and 3) critical observation of this modules central research skill: textual referencing. Remember that, while it may be easier to skim the articles or only read them once, reading these articles several times for the purposes outlined above will deepen your understanding of the content and, ultimately, benefit you later in the course.

Read each of the following: 

  • by Kate Sheppard

Evaluate these non-fiction articles as you read them.  If the link opens to the Academic Search Complete database, click on the HTML Full Text or PDF icon in the upper left-hand corner for the most accurate copy of the article.

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