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Sociology in Action ProjectSOCI 100Overview: What is This Assignment?Apply what you have been learning in class to thesocial world around us. Go to an online interactive forum that is new to you.Read the comments, look at the visuals. Examine how people present themselvesand how they behave. Think about how the culture of that setting compares to anonline interactive forum you regularly participate in (you can also think of anactual in-person social setting or group). Take notes on what you see, andwrite between 3 (three) to 5 (five) full page double-spaced description andanalysis. The title page and references are not included in thisminimum.Important Details: Choosing a SettingChoose a setting or type of channel orfeed that is different from what you are familiar with.Are you mostly active on TikTok? Choose adifferent social medium. Do you regularly read andmaybe even post on a few Redditcommunities? You can stay on Reddit, but choose topics witha very different type of focus than yours— social vs. professional, academic vs. fun, etc. Youmight need to make an account to see siteposts. Feel free to use a throwaway email for it!Here’s a non-exhaustive list of potentialsocial media sites: Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Tiktok,Twitter, or Tumblr; a group or company’sFacebook page; a Twitch channel or a subreddit onReddit. It should a space that you are notfamiliar with, and that you can compare withsomewhere you are familiar with.How much to observe? This depends on themedium you choose. If the site is organized bypeople or groups (TikTok, Facebook, Twitter,Instagram) choose one or two people’s or groups’pages or feeds. If it’s organized by topic(Reddit, Discord, Twitch), choose one or two topics.Start with two weeks’ worth of posts andinteractions. In some cases this could be a hugeamount; in others, not enough. You don’tneed to read all 1300 responses to the twenty posts put up over two weeks! As aballpark, you should go through about twenty computer monitorscreens’ worth of text. (This means, forinstance, that if a lot of the content is pictures, youshould be looking at more than twentyscreens!) You might do this in one session, or in a fewbatches.As you read, record your initialimpressions. You will turn your notes, so write them in Englishif you can. If that is more difficult, usea language that works best for you. Also, keep records ofwhat you see (turn these in, too): eithercopy & paste text you think you will talk about into adocument, along with the poster’s name andthe date, or take screen shots. (On Macs, save apicture to your desktop by usingCmd-Shift-3 to take a picture of your entire screen; use Cmd-Shift-4, and thengo to a corner and drag to choose a rectangle that you want to take a pictureof. On Windows, there are multiple ways. Here’s a good link with directions: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-toscreenshot-on-windows. If you use Linux, I assume you canfigure it out yourself!)Keep track of what you look at. Give meweb addresses for the accounts/pages, and the date range for original posts thatcomments were made on. Get the specific links for posts or questions that youlook at a lot, and that you think you will end up writing about.Important Details: Making Observations and TakingNotesIdeas of things to look for: What are people doing andhow are they behaving? What norms doyou see in action? How and when do people interactwith each other, and what does this suggest? Any cues about people’s socialclass? How is material or nonmaterial culture used? What symbols do you see?Are there any recurring or influential stereotypes? Pay attention to the socialstructure of your setting: do you see things that suggest specific powerrelations? How about latent and manifest functions? Are there in-references orjokes? Do not expect to be able to think about all of this(!), and don’t belimited to this list: everything we have learned is open to you. Also, payattention to what is similar to and different from settings you are familiarwith.While you’re doing your initial read of your setting:don’t take such detailed notes about onepost or comment that you don’t get to the big picture.Mark something that stands out, writeyourself a brief note about why it stands out or whatyou noticed, and keep going. Once you’redone with that session of reading, or with theresponses to one post, or you’re at some other nice breaking spot, go backthrough your notes and fill them in with more details about your thoughts.Don’t assume that you’ll remember what you were thinking if you don’t write itdown! Don’t write your entire paper here, but make sure you’ve written enoughthat you’ll remember what and why something was significant, what coursecontent it connects to, and how.What to WriteFor your write-up: Tell me about this place as if I don’t know anything about the settingorwhat goes on in it (I might not!). In your essay, inorder:1. In 5-8sentences, identify and briefly describe your setting. What is it? Whatis its manifest social function? What is its basic structure (ie, organized bypeople or topic), and how does it work?2. Spend 3-4 pages telling me about what you observed,and your analysis of it. When describing things remember to use relevantsociological terms, such as the “cultural capital” of someone you saw, or the“signified” associated with something you read. For each aspect of the settingyou describe: tell me how what you observed illustrates or reflects asociological phenomenon from class, what concept it is an example of, howsomething you have learned can help me understand what you saw, etc. Make sureto define sociological concepts, phenomena and the like. Include citations todefinitions or other relevant course content.3. Think of a comparable setting you are used to. Youdon’t have to do formal observations of this second setting, though you arewelcome to revisit it if it would help. Spend about 1 page discussing how whatyou observed is similar to or different from it. What is a comparable settingthat you are used to? Are there surprising similarities or differences? Do youhave ideas about why some things might be the same or different?4. In 5-8 sentences, summarize the paper by telling mewhat the most important things were that you learned about the setting youobserved.These sentence and page ranges are guidelines. Youwon’t have room to write about everything, so focus on the aspects that youfind most interesting, important, surprising, etc. If you go to the maximum foreach section, you’ll be over 5 pages.Formatting GuidelinesEssays that do not follow these guidelines will haveup to 5% deducted. Use Times New Roman 12pt font, double-spaced, 1” (2.54 cm)margins. Do not put extra space between paragraphs (as this handout does!):start each paragraph with an indent/tab. Number your pages! You should startwith a title page (not part of the page count, should not be numbered), whichshould include: your essay title, your name, the due date, the course name, andmyName. Include a References page at the end, which alsodoes not count asone of your pages. See information on Moodle aboutwhen and how to cite materials.Turning in your essay and notes on Moodle.Source RequirementsThe course text (Cummings) must be meaningfullyintegrated into your analysis and cited in-text and included on a referenceslist accordance with APA 7th.Uploadyour essay as a Word or PDF file. If you wrote your notes on paper, scan or takepictures of them to upload. It’s okay if your handwriting is bad, we want tosee the originals! It’s fine if each page of notes is a separate file. If youtyped your notes, upload them as Word or P
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