CELL PHONE USE ESSAY

CELL PHONE USE ESSAY (100 points).

See previous section for my policy on late papers.Before you begin to write your essay, you should acclimate yourself to the essay topic by viewing this short YouTube video. You do NOT need to cite it. However, it should help you to start thinking aboutthe issues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zncNBE_kgFAThis assignment will enable you to draw upon course content while using a social psychological perspective to frame your assessment of your cell phone usage and others’ cell phone usage as well. Young people in the United States, and many other countries, are accustomed to using a cell phone to help them navigate their worlds. From a social psychological perspective, it is useful to step back and explore how people use these devices to manage their interpersonal lives and construct their identities. How we define ourselves and how we relate to others is influenced by our orientation to our cell phones. At times, how we perceive others and judge their behavior is also related to our orientation toward cell phones.For this essay, you’ll need to consider at least the following three elements and incorporate them into your project. You’re free to construct and organize your essay as you see fit, BUT you need to make sure your essay covers all three of the points below. In other words, you don’t need to order your paper by dealing with the first point, then the second point, and then the third. Just make sure that you cover all three sets of issues.The strongest papers will be those that are anchored to a coherent theme (an organizational hook) thatgivethe paper a well-articulated focus. You can address your analysis on yourself and one other person or frame your paper to deal with a much larger number of people with whom you’ve interacted. 14First, consider your own personal cell phone use. Identify differences in your cell phone use in public (e.g., school, church, restaurants, etc.) versus private (e.g., dinner with family, out with friends or romantic partner, etc.) spaces. Are your aware and influenced by expected behaviors or norms associated with “appropriate” cell phone use in certain spaces? Have you ever deviated from these norms? Were there situations in which someone expressed disapproval or challenged your cell phone use in public or private spaces? Give details to any tension or conflicts that resulted from your personal cell phone use. Second, consider others’ (e.g., family, friends, strangers, etc.) cell phone use. Were there situations in which norms were violated and you felt and/or expressed disapproval to others’ cell phone use? Which norms were violated? Was the conflict in a public or private space? How did you feel and respond? Third, consider whether you have made changes to your cell phone use to help youadapt to others’ expectations of when, where, and how it’s appropriate for you (or others) to use a cell phone? In what ways have your observations of others using cell phones in inappropriate situations inspired you to make changes as well?You will need to incorporate your personal experiences with cell phone use into your essay so that your writing illustrates and examines at least SEVENkey sociological concepts that are either discussed in class and/or your readings for this course. Bold and underline the first time you use the concept. Furthermore, you will be expected to incorporate the symbolic interactionist perspective into your essay. In other words, you will need to indicateexplicitlyin your essay how the perspective(s) informs the way you are thinking about and analyzing your situation.I expect you to write a coherent essay that explores your personal experiences as they relate to these concepts and demonstrates your understanding of what these concepts mean. Your essay should be AT LEAST 4typed pages but absolutely no more than 5, and it is due during the class period. You need to follow the directions closely for preparing your essay (see below).I will collect and return them in a manner that ensures that no one else sees them. My TA or I will also be the only onesto read them. I will assess your paper on thefollowing criteria (use this as a check list): Based on the above directions, there are three critical elementsto this essay:explicit and rigorous use of the SI theoretical perspectiveexplicit and analytically compelling inclusion of at least 7 sociologicalconceptsa largelyanalytical essay, not one that is merely descriptiveI will assess your essay on the following criteria (use this as a check list):1. Degree and quality of analytic effort (most important, 75 points)how insightful is your sociological analysis, ie., does it go beyond a superficial treatment of the subject and get at underlying themes and patterns 15do you present your ideas in a logical fashiondoes your analysis integrate key concepts in meaningful waysdo you compare/contrast key ideas in a way that demonstrates your deep understandinghave you clearly shown how the SIperspective helps to frame your analysishave you used the concepts and theoretical perspective accurately?2. Organizational structure and writing style (15 points) is your paper easy to read, are your sentences clear and without grammatical mistakesis your paper well organized with topic sentences and logical transitions between paragraphsis there a sense of continuity from the beginning to the endhave you included a strong opening and conclusion?3. Creativity of thought and presentation (5 points) do you keep my interest and motivate me to read the next sentence and to turn the pagesdo you include thought provoking passages or questions that demonstrate original thinking?4. Quality of professional presentation (5 points) have you double and triple checked your paper to eliminate typos and misspellingsis your paper printed with neat and clear ink (no faded type please)have youfollowed my directions for preparing your paper including a cover page, page numbers, font, page limits, NO extra spacing between paragraphs, etc.have you stapled your paperhave you submitted your paper on or before the due date? 3. Papers must be typed using 12 inch font and 1 inch top and bottom margins. Make sure the print is clearly legible.