{"id":428562,"date":"2018-10-05T20:42:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T20:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acemystudy.com\/?p=7635"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:48:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:48:55","slug":"sociology-personal-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/sociology-personal-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociology\t Personal interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sociology Personal interview<\/p>\n<p>Instructions in document<\/p>\n<p>Sociology of Race &amp; Ethnicity &#8211; Writing Assignment Instructions<\/p>\n<p>As we have discussed at length in our course, immigration has literally transformed the United States. From the European and Asian nations that sent people to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>nearly two centuries ago, to the continual racial and ethnic demographic changes in our country, the immigrant experience is alive and well here. Why do people<\/p>\n<p>migrate across international borders? How do we understand the politics of immigration? And how do we understand \u201cincorporation,\u201d the process by which foreignborn<\/p>\n<p>individuals become integrated in their new home? So that you can better understand and analyze some of these questions you will interview an individual who<\/p>\n<p>has lived the immigrant experience, which will then become the basis of your semester Race &amp; Ethnicity Research Paper.<\/p>\n<p>Your paper must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>include your name (ONLY) on the upper left corner \u2013 nothing else is necessary; don\u2019t include my name, course name, no cover pages, etc.<\/li>\n<li>be typed (12 point font),<\/li>\n<li>double-spaced,<\/li>\n<li>1 inch margins on all sides,<\/li>\n<li>be three-four pages (body\/text )long. Papers less than three pages are unacceptable, and papers which exceed four pages will not be accepted.<\/li>\n<li>if you decide to use outside sources &#8211; incorporate quotations, facts that are not common knowledge, and\/or ideas which are not your own \u2013 cite accordingly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(including page numbers). You may use ASA or MLA citation formats.<\/p>\n<p>Papers which do not include all of the above will automatically be downgraded by five points. Please edit your work carefully.<\/p>\n<p>How to title\/name your file for this assignment:<\/p>\n<p>Save your report in Word and use the following file-naming convention:<\/p>\n<p>Writing Assignment_your-last-name.doc(Example: Writing Assignment_Noone.doc) Be sure to use the underscores as you see in this example.<\/p>\n<p>How to Submit your Paper:<\/p>\n<p>When you have finished your assignment, you will upload (submit) it in the Assessments area in folio \u2013<\/p>\n<p>DO NOT submit this Assignment as an email attachment. You may submit this assignment only one time.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Complete the assignment in a Word document. This assignment must be completed in a Word format.<\/li>\n<li>Under the Assessments dropdown button, click the Dropbox link.<\/li>\n<li>Click the \u201cWriting Assignment Dropbox\u201d button.<\/li>\n<li>Click \u201cAdd A File,\u201d then \u201cUpload,\u201d and browse for the Word document that you have on your computer. Select your document and click \u201cOpen\u201d so that it uploads<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>to the Assessments area. Click \u201cDone.\u201d Your document will now appear below \u201cAdd A File.\u201d Click \u201cSubmit.\u201d<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Your document will appear under \u201cSubmitted Files.\u201d MAKE CERTAIN TO CONFIRM that it was submitted correctly by looking under \u201cSubmission Date,\u201d where it<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>will show the date and time stamp of your submitted document.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>This Writing Assignment must be uploaded to the Assessments Dropbox by 11:59pm EST at the close of Learning Module Six.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>**Please remember that assignments not submitted by the closing date\/time will automatically receive a grade of zero. **<\/p>\n<p>Now, for the Specific Instructions: (please read through carefully)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCivilization is a stream with banks.<\/p>\n<p>The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record,<\/p>\n<p>while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, and write poetry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks; however, we often ignore the banks for the river.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Will Durant, The Story of Civilization<\/p>\n<p>Much of what we study in this course is what is considered historical sociology; that is, it is the history of major political figures, important events, and significant<\/p>\n<p>historical trends. Now it is your turn to help create the history that occurs on the \u201cbanks of the river\u201d &#8211; the story of everyday people, the story of immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Oral histories are created when one person (you\/the interviewer) interviews another person (the interviewee) about a specific time period in the interviewee&#8217;s life. The<\/p>\n<p>interviewer takes the interviewee&#8217;s responses and creates a text of the interviewee&#8217;s words told through the point of view of the interviewee. It is not an exact<\/p>\n<p>transcript of what the interviewee says. The interviewer must edit the transcript\u2014moving parts around, taking parts out, and even adding words here and there (with<\/p>\n<p>the interviewee&#8217;s permission). The final piece of writing should capture the voice and spirit of the interviewee\u2019s immigrant experience.<\/p>\n<p>Steps to Completing the Oral History:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Select a person you wish to interview. This will be an individual who came to the United States from another country when he or she was at least 18 years old.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your informant may be a friend, relative, or acquaintance. Again, this person MUST be an adult who was not born in the U.S.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do some research on their country of origin.<\/li>\n<li>Interview your informant for a minimum of 60-90 minutes. It is always a good idea to record the interview, so that you can focus on the conversation without<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>having to take copious notes. If so, ask beforehand if your interviewee is comfortable with being recorded, and comply with his\/her wishes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your interview will be semi-structured; that is, guided by a written questionnaire, but carried out like a conversation through \u201cprompting.\u201d An effective<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>interviewer encourages the respondent to tell their experiences with examples and anecdotes, rather than yes\/no survey-style answers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your interview should carefully consider (1) migration, (2) integration\/assimilation, and (3) membership.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Below are some examples of possible key questions and areas of inquiry.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What country are you originally from?<\/li>\n<li>Why did you leave this country?<\/li>\n<li>When did you leave? How old were at that time?<\/li>\n<li>What were the conditions in the country when you left?<\/li>\n<li>How did you prepare for your trip here?<\/li>\n<li>Who came with you when you emigrated? Who did you leave behind? What did you leave behind?<\/li>\n<li>How did you get here? Did you stay somewhere else before arriving here?<\/li>\n<li>Why did you choose the United States? Why not some other country?<\/li>\n<li>Who decided you would come here? Did you want to leave? |<\/li>\n<li>How did others in your home country treat you when they knew you were leaving?<\/li>\n<li>What changes in lifestyle did you make when you came here?<\/li>\n<li>What was your first impression of the United States? Has this initial impression changed over time?<\/li>\n<li>What are some of the differences\/similarities you&#8217;ve noticed in the cultures here and in your home country?<\/li>\n<li>What were your hopes for yourself (and\/or your family) when you came here? Have you realized these hopes?<\/li>\n<li>How were you treated when you first arrived in the United States? How are you treated now?<\/li>\n<li>Were your expectations of America met? Was your idea of America the same as the reality?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And what actually goes in the paper?<\/p>\n<p>Next page, please\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Second (the Content and Structure of your Paper):<\/p>\n<p>Your field work\/interview will be presented in the form of a three-four page paper narrative of the interview, written in complete sentences and paragraphs.<\/p>\n<p>All of the following three sections (at minimum), titled as below &#8211; in this order \u2013 must be covered in your paper:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Introduction,<\/li>\n<li>Content, and<\/li>\n<li>Conclusion \/ Analysis<\/li>\n<li>The Introduction section will be relatively short, and include basic background\/demographic information to orient the reader.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>(Remember that your paper is really about your informant\u2019s experiences, culture and insights into our culture; his or her life history is only the background, or<\/p>\n<p>context).<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>The Content section discusses his or her home culture and his or her impressions of U.S. culture. You are looking for cultural (as opposed to individual) practices,<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>beliefs, values, outlooks, and so on, to understand or explain. These are usually things that differ from what we are used to here in the U.S. They may give you<\/p>\n<p>insights into both your informant\u2019s culture, and ours, by contrast. You are interpreting or explaining some of those differences, using concepts from this course.<\/p>\n<p>This is the main body of the paper, and should include detailed anecdotes and very specific information about your interviewee\u2019s feelings\/attitudes\/beliefs about<\/p>\n<p>their experiences.<\/p>\n<p>This section should be detailed, fleshed-out, and supported by select exact quotes from your interview subjects.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>The Conclusion\/Analysis section includes your findings and conclusions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Try to synthesize or generalize and interpret what you have learned of your informant\u2019s home culture and American culture. That is, suggest some conclusions<\/p>\n<p>about the immigration experience and its effects on one or both cultures. Support your ideas by summarizing or quoting things your informant said, and explaining<\/p>\n<p>how they point to your conclusions. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Suggest general themes or characteristics of either culture (&#8220;Peruvians tend to value such-and-such, which affects many aspects of their lives, such as\u2026&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Note repeating themes or parallels in different stories or aspects of the culture (&#8220;A common thread in these stories is that\u2026 which suggests that\u2026&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Ask yourself \u201cIs this part of a larger pattern?\u201d \u201cWhat does this imply about the culture?\u201d The answer may be an interesting generalization about the<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>culture.<\/p>\n<p>You may also want to ask yourself, as applicable:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What did you learn about the immigration experience you did not previously know? What surprised you?<\/li>\n<li>What I heard that surprised me was\u2026<\/li>\n<li>Something I learned from the oral histories was\u2026<\/li>\n<li>One thing I thought was important from the interviews was\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Grading Criteria:<\/p>\n<p>This paper is worth 20% of your final grade; it is a college-level paper and will be graded as such.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m often asked, \u201cHow do I get 60 points on this assignment?\u201d First, remember that 60 points is a perfect score, so to get a 60 your paper would need to be flawless.<\/p>\n<p>You will generally be assessed based on the effort that went into writing the interview (completeness, attention to detail), and the care and thought displayed in the<\/p>\n<p>reflection of the narrative.<\/p>\n<p>There are many elements that contribute to a paper earning a great score; an exceptional paper must include all of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>interesting and relevant details, words and phrases \u2013 provide specific examples and verbatim quotes where applicable<\/li>\n<li>objectivity \u2013 the ability to critically and impartially assess your experiences<\/li>\n<li>logical thinking and arguments<\/li>\n<li>original thought<\/li>\n<li>answer all questions posed in the assignment<\/li>\n<li>no grammar or spelling errors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You will be graded using the Writing Assignment Rubric on Folio.<\/p>\n<p>*** A reminder: ***<\/p>\n<p>Plagiarism is a serious offense.<\/p>\n<p>Any written work in this class is reviewed by .<\/p>\n<p>Turnitin is a site that checks for plagiarism and generates an originality report that notes which parts of a paper appear unattributed to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>other student papers,<\/li>\n<li>previous papers you have submitted,<\/li>\n<li>internet sources,<\/li>\n<li>articles,<\/li>\n<li>books<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You *may not* submit a paper \u2013 or any part of a paper \u2013 that you submitted for another class;<\/p>\n<p>this constitutes plagiarism as well.<\/p>\n<p>Any incidence of academic dishonesty will result in an automatic zero (F) for this assignment,<\/p>\n<p>and will be reported to the Georgia Southern University Office of Student Conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Incidences of plagiarism may additionally result in a zero (F) for the entire course and further<\/p>\n<p>disciplinary action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sociology Personal interview Instructions in document Sociology of Race &amp; Ethnicity &#8211; Writing Assignment Instructions As we have discussed at length in our course, immigration has literally transformed the United States. 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