Paper Topics - Spring, 2008

Here are some paper topics you can start writing on. You are REQUIRED
to do at least two for the class. However, you may do as many as you
wish for extra credit. This means that you can "bank" the points so
that if you get 150 points, total, on your papers, you can apply that
toward your final total points in the class. This protects you in case
you did poorly on WebBoard, final exam, or final paper. It also means
that if you do two papers and score a D (for example, 30 + 30 = 60), 
you can do more papers and add those to the score. So, if you did four
papers and got 30 (D) on each, you'd have 120 points (out of 100, so
you've have 20 extra to "bank").

Postmodernism and Movies (points up to 20 each - Due May 7
Movie THE ARISTOCRATS - May  (points up to 10 - Due May 7
Polish Peasant - up to 30 points - Due May 5
Goffman - Presenation of Self - up to 50 points - Due May 5
Nail the Professor (deadline: Any time)
Eats, Shoots, Leaves - Due NLT Anytime before End of term

DEADLINE PASSED

Book Critique (Due April 28 - up to 25 points
Accounts (SI) - up to 10 points - Due April 16
Race, Obama, and Theory (Due April 21 - up to 10 points
Applying conflict/Pamela Roby (Due April 14 - 10 points
Manning - Semiotics of t-shirts (Due April 14 - 10 points
Symbolic Interction and Race (2) - Due April 7 (up to 10 points)
Domhoff - elites (30 points, due March 31)
Privilege and Conflict Theory (up to 20 points: Due March 17)
Functionalism - Three options (March 17)
Weber - Objectivity in Social Science Due Feb 14

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