Newsworthy Issues about Men as Men or Women as Women

First task for this assignment will be to search for three (3) different articles about men as men OR women as women. These stories should address, for example, issues about growing up male or female, “fitting in” as a male or female in modern society (e.g., in schools, in the workplace, in sports), dilemmas of manhood or womanhood, cross sex relationships, men’s relationships with men or women’s relationships with women, changing “roles” in work/family/etc., etc. • Each of these three articles must be found in newspapers or newsmagazines. • Each must be no more than 3 years old (i.e., no dates earlier than March 2017). • If you use articles found on the Internet/ World wide web, the articles must be at least 3 pages.

You can write on either sex, it does not have to be your own.

Next, you will need to give some thought to the theories and perspectives presented in the text. You will use at least one sociological theory to offer a sociological interpretation/explanation of the issue that your news articles address.

Make it interesting!!!! Write this paper like you would write a report or story for your favorite magazine or newspaper. •

Introduction: Your introduction will describe the issue you will address in your paper. Explain why this issue is important.

Sections of the paper: Organize your paper by sections. Be sure these sections represent key aspects of the issue involved. At least one of these sections must address a sociological theory relevant to your topic. • Conclusion: Recap the major points/perspectives/theoretical importance of the paper.

The end product should be a paper that is typed, double-spaced, well-written, sociologically informed, and no more than 5 pages long. NOTE: You must cite within the body of the paper the articles you use as references AND turn in a bibliography that lists all of these articles, including those you use as references from the text and other items for this course.

When citing a source in the text of a paper, please include all of the following information: Last name of author or authors, year in which the article, book, book chapter, etc. was published, and (when quoting directly or paraphrasing) the page number from which the idea/issue/statement is drawn. It is important to include the year of publication because many authors (especially scientists) publish frequently. If you are in doubt as to whether to cite, fault on the side of caution and go ahead and cite the source.

Merely piecing together chunks of text from another author’s work, whether paraphrasing or quoting directly, is unethical and obviously unoriginal. A research paper is one in which you develop your own understanding of a subject by exploring the relevant literature, and then write a paper based on multiple sources of information. If you draw substantially from a single author you must (at the very least) indicate that you are doing so. While most papers of this type do not allow for personal experience, I would like you to use your personal experience to support or reject important points BUT this is not and autobiographical paper.