Sociology Assignment Task

For each unit, you will have to focus on the corresponding chapters in the textbook. Write 2 double-spaced pages, and between 12 concepts per page. Write 1 page per chapter. For instance, for unit 3, you will have to write 1 page relating to Social interaction and one page for social structure. You will need to high light the sociological concepts you use in your essays .Make sure you do not use less than 12 concepts per page . You can use more but not less,

Books:
Max Barry, Jennifer Government
George Orwell, 1984
Susan Collins, The Hunger Games
Veronica Ruth, Divergent

Films:
Minority Report
Hunger Games
Planet of the Apes (old or new version)
Gattaca
Brazil
Solyent Green
Equilibrium
Divergent

Choose 1 book or a film from the following list. You will use that source for all of your Sci-Fi essays this term.

The main purpose of this assignment is for you to relate sociological concepts (presented in each chapter of the textbook) to the materials presented in the book and films. Your final version should be precise in referring to the film or the book.. Here are just some of the things that should figure in your paper:

3) Social interaction and social structure. Interactions are an essential part of our lives and our “self”. Are the characters confronted with role strain or role conflict? In the films and books, describe the main character’s ascribed and achieved status(es). Are the societies described based on mechanical or organic solidarity? Are they more Gemeinschaft or Gesellschaft societies?

These unit assignments are expected to be thorough; it is clear that you will not have read the complete book by the unit one deadline, but it is important that you start the reading and get an initial idea of what you have to do. The first few chapters of a book or the introductory scenes of a film usually tell you a lot about a given society and its culture.

You are expected to be specific. For instance, it is not enough to write that in 1984, the government is totalitarian; you are expected to provide detailed explanations to support this assessment and to give precise examples from the book. Or, of course, don’t tell me that a society seems technologically advanced. This is SCIENCE FICTION. Of course societies are very likely to be technologically advanced. As sociologists, we are much more interested in the effects of technology on society and vice versa.