Sociology 90W Senior Seminar

Anna Szymanski, our new writing tutor, will hold office hours Mondays from 5-8pm and Thursdays from 4-8pm in 3416 James. Use the link in the right margin to contact her.

The research report will consist of the literature review, the demographic report, your interpretation of the visual data (with presentation of some of it), and your conclusions about what you found. The first two parts are the two stand-alone assignments, of course, so in writing drafts of those parts, you are just about half-way there.

Introduction
Introduce your ethnography. Begin with a broad statement of the sociological import of the topic and narrow down to the focus of your particular project. Next, briefly explain why you did a visual ethnography on this topic. Finally, give a hint at your findings and what you see as your contribution to the literature.

Don't begin with narration: My topic is... or I decided to study... You want to frame the work as a piece of professional sociology, not as a paper assignment in a class. Part of the purpose of the senior seminar is to give you an opportunity to learn about modes of professional communication. Write to the discipline, not to me. Remember your professional diction.

The Literature

Use the community profile from NYC.gov (see research links in the right margin) that includes your neighborhood. Identify the census tracts that cover your area of study. Consider both land use and population. Write a couple of paragraphs describing your neighborhood from the point of view of this data. Include in your summary at least one fact about the physical environment and at least one fact about the population.

Post your summary as a comment to this page.

The theme of these photos is community solidarity. The benches in the open lot and the wealth of available community services in the photos presuppose that this is a close knit community and allows space for social interaction. The many signs and social nuances about the community, as presented in the photos, leave room to assume that the residents feel a strong sense of responsibility for the neighborhood as well as each other.

I know that everyone is feeling the time pressure that our heavy workload has required. I'm sympathetic. At the same time, I have to make sure that everyone is able to complete the work by the end of the semester. We can't keep pushing back deadlines because when the end of the semester arrives, there is no more give. It is clear that most of you are not going to be able to turn in the literature review by midnight on Thursday. As a result, I have decided to extend the deadline to midnight on Sunday, 11/11. (Be aware that means you'll have less time to work on the other parts.)

If you are able to turn in your literature review before the deadline, please do. That way I can get started on the grading. The lateness penalty won't be enforced until the Sunday deadline.

I've specified the schedule for the presentations. Our last three meetings, 12/4, 12/6, 12/11, will be for student presentations and discussion. I randomly assigned students to time slots. See the schedule page for details. The order listed is the order of presentations. The presentation is worth up to 10 points. If you are not prepared to make a presentation when your slot arrives, you will lose the opportunity to earn those points. If you switch slots with someone, let me know and I will amend the schedule.

Religious identity is a matter of self-identification and self-declaration. It describes an individuals understanding of him or her. Religious identity is a way individuals can label themselves as a member of a particular group.

The evidence presented depicts ways individuals can identify themselves. They must obviously be very religious due to the fact they reveal it on their vehicles. Picture 1 illustrates it on the bumper sticker, picture 2 illustrates it on the back window, and picture 3 illustrates it with words across the vehicle.

The three photos illustrate how people use the resturant as a place to socially interact with another. The symbols here are food and the people eating it. People share a sense of ethnic indentity by eating similar foods. Testing oui, doux, troi

In this neighborhood, there are a lot of attractions to people who are interested in arts and fashion. There are art supply stores, material stores, vintage clothing stores, and different exhibition’s posters.

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