Overview
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lW9gREERZB... THE LINK FOR ALL THE READINGS AND LECTURSES
The midterm consists of two short essays no longer than 500 words. All students will answer the first prompt. They will select one of two options from the second set of prompts.Length Limit: 500 words for each response (1000 words total). Responses over 500 words will be penalized a half-letter grade.Citation Format:
- Page numbers are important when referencing specific examples or quotes. Formal citations are not required, such as authors last name and year. We just need to be able to see you cite the appropriate author and when relevant page number. For example: The low wages, high rents, and need to live near work centralizes the working class in impoverished and crowded slums (Engels, p.20). Listing the page number is fine if it is clear which author, you are attributing the claim, example, or quote. Otherwise, list authors last name. e.g. As Dubois prophetically stated “The problem of the twentieth century, is the problem of the color line” (22).
- When referring to examples made in lecture simply cite (lecture).
- No need for a list of references at the end of the paper.
- No need for listing the year of publication since we are all drawing from the same texts.
Essay Prompts.
*All students will respond to Prompt #1. Students will Chose between prompts 2 and 3 to respond to. In sum, students should respond to two prompts total.
- Each of our foundational approaches to urban sociology (Chicago/Marxian/Dubois) have different explanations of the causes of urban inequality. In some ways complimentary and in others contradictory. How is Dubois analysis of urban inequality similar AND different to that of the Chicago School AND Engels?
- Required: (1) Zorbaugh, (2) Selection from Chicago School (Burgess or Mckenzie), (3) Engels, (4) Dubois, (5) Lecture
The second part of the course has traced the rise of the postwar suburbs and the decline of the inner city, while also drawing attention to the critical role of the state. Please respond to one of the following . . .
2. How did government action and/or policy shape postwar suburbanization?
- Required: (1) Logan & Molotch, (2) Jackson, (3) Lecture, and (4) at least one from this list: Laslett, Wacquant, Yamahtta- Taylor.
3.How did government action and/or policy shape the inner-city after 1945?
- Required: (1) Logan & Molotch, (2) Wacquant, (3) Lecture, and (4) at least one from this list: Laslett, Jackson, Yamahtta Taylor.
- A clearly identifiable thesis statement.
- At least two key quotes from the texts supporting your argument.
- At least two specific examples from the texts supporting your argument.
- A reference to lecture (even if only briefly). Note - the references from lecture should NOT be those covered in the assigned readings (otherwise cite the readings directly). Instead they should feature examples or concepts introduced by the Professor from cases or texts outside those assigned on the syllabus.
- References to all "required texts" listed in each prompt (although if you use other course texts in addition cite those as wells)