sociological concept movie review forrest gump

General Paper Requirements:

All papers for all classes will be submitted as a Word document only. No hard copies will be turned in. No google documents or shared documents can be submitted. Your paper must be a Microsoft Word Document. Contact Distance Learning to get your Free copy of Microsoft 365.

Times New Roman, Verdana, Calibri – the 12-point font (yes, it has to be typed)

Cover Page: name, class, and section (example: SOC 531-W1), title, date

Use APA format (cover page, margins, citations – if your paper requires).
However, you will have no citations if you complete your paper using illustrations or applications that
are YOUR OWN (without providing concept definitions) If your work demands references, they need to be provided in APA format.

Double-spaced

Your paper will need to be 4- pages min. (not including the cover page)

Must be emailed to me or uploaded to Blackboard / Canvas by the due date.


The paper must be submitted as a Word document (.doc or .docx). I cannot open a google document or any shared document.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Do NOT even THINK of looking at movie review websites for any part of your paper. Several students get a zero every semester and fail the course using lines, phrases, or thoughts from a movie review website. I will be checking, and doing this is plagiarism. It could end your college career, go on your permanent record, and cause failure in the course.

Points Are Earned as Follows:


Introduction 10 points total:

• 10 points - Introduce the movie/paper – basic plot – in the context of sociological principles. You will synthesize – bring together – sociology and the movie plot.
List the four broad categories you will be covering. Integrate or weave in the list of categories within your introduction. It must be a well-developed paragraph with a depth of thought and good grammar.
Body Paragraphs (20 points each – there will be at least four body paragraphs) – 80 points total

• Open with your category in a clear topic sentence
• Within the paragraph, apply three examples of entirely different concepts to a movie scene under that category’s topic.
• For example (1 paragraph would look like)
o Category – socialization – described in the topic sentence
o Five points - Develop example 1 (your first topic related to socialization, for example – family as agent of soc) from a movie relating to the family as an agent of socialization. Do not define family as an agent of soc but apply a scene from the movie that shows an example of the concept.
o Five points - Develop example 2 (your second topic related to socialization, for example – nature vs. nurture) from a movie relating to nature/nurture. Do not define nature/nurture but apply a scene from the movie that shows an example of the concept.
o Five points - Develop example 3 (your third topic related to socialization, for example – The Looking Glass Self) from a movie related to The Looking Glass Self. Do not define The Looking Glass Self but apply a scene from the movie that shows an example of the concept.
o Five points – for paragraph development, communication of ideas, and grammar.

Each paragraph, like the example, would be worth 20 points, and you will do 4 – based on four different categories. These will total 80 points.

Conclusion – worth 10 points total
o Ten points - Evaluate - present your defended opinion of how well (or not) the movie related to sociology. Integrate this into your paper’s concluding statements.
Must be a well-developed paragraph with a depth of thought and good use of grammar.