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Sociology Question

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PLEASE READ INSTRUCTIONS VERY CAREFULLY. THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT MIDTERM. RUBRIC IS ATTACHED TO THIS.

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.

  1. 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 . . .

  1. 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.

  1. 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)

READINGS:

  • Engels, Friedrich. 1845. Selections from The Condition of the Working Class in England. "Dedication: To the Working Class of England," "The Industrial Proletariat," “The Great Towns” (23-27; 45-48; 53-60).
  • Logan, John R. and Harvey L. Molotch. 1987. Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. Chapter 1 “The Social Construction of Cities” (1-15).*
  • DuBois, W.E.B. 1899. Selections from The Philadelphia Negro. 2 "The Negro Problem" (5-9). Ch. 7 “Sources of the Negro Population (73-82), Ch 9. “The Occupation of the Negros” (126-131). Ch.14 "The Causes of Crime and Poverty" (283-286) Ch. 15. “The Environment of the Negro” (287-299). Ch 16 “The Contact of the Races” (322-329).
  • Soja, Ed. 1994. “Los Angeles 1965-1992: Six Geographies of Urban Restructuring.” (p7-35).
  • Li, Wei. 1998. “Anatomy of a New Ethnic Settlement: The Chinese Ethnoburb in Los Angeles.” Urban Studies35(3):479–501.
  • Laslett, J. 1996. “Historical Perspectives: Immigration and the Rise of a Distinctive Urban Region, 1900-1970”. In Waldinger, R. & Bozorgmehr, M., Eds. Ethnic Los Angeles. Russell Sage Foundation (39-71).
  • Logan, John R. and Harvey L. Molotch. 1987. Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place
  • Links to an external site.
  • . Selection from Chpt 3. "The City as Growth Machine," (50-75). Selections from Chpt. 5 "How Government Matters" (151-159; 166-171)
  • Jackson, K. 1985. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. Oxford University Press. Ch. 11, “Federal Subsidies and the Suburban Dream” (190-218).

I WILL LINK THE LECTURE SLIDES AFTER YOU PICK UP THE ASSIGNMENT.

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