Weight and Length: 30 marks, 5-8 pages, double spaced, 1500- 2200 words Formatting Requirements: 1. Include your name, student number, the date, and course number on the 1st page 2. Use default font (Times New Roman), font size (12), align left, and standard margins 3. Use APA citation style 4. Include a bibliography/reference 5. Title pages and bibliographies do not count to the word limits Requirements: Examine a contemporary social issue Make direct reference to at least one 'classical' thinker (Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Mead) and one 'contemporary' thinker (Goffman. Schutz. Parsons. Foucault, Bourdieu, Du Bois, Marcuse, etc) Formulate your own ideas and state your own argument Structure: 1. Introduction: what is the social issue? Find a topic most interests you, formulate a problem or a theme Identify a hook between the social issue and the theories, explain how they are related Indicate your thesis or argument 2. The body: how theories can be used to analyze the social issue? Presents the ideas and examples in coherent and orderly way. Quote from, explain, and comment on particular concepts or passages of thinkers. Discuss how and why these Discuss how and why these theoretical ideas are useful to analyze the social issue. Provide some specific details of the social issue. Formulate your arguments and suggestions 3. Conclusion: Review or summarize the main ideas. Restate your thesis or argument.