PERSONAL JOURNAL ANALYSIS PAPER
This assignment will enable you to choose an experience from your life and interpret itfrom a social psychological perspective.You will need to select some past or present personal experience (e.g., dating situation,uncoupling process, parents’ or your own divorce, job interview, party, Thanksgivingdinner, family ritual, traveling adventure, personal crisis) that will enable you to illustrateand examine at least SIX key social psychological concepts (e.g., see the list of key termsand concepts listed at the end of each chapter, and other concepts we studied thissemester). One of the key terms that you analyze in your paper must be SymbolicInteractionism. You may choose the other five concepts/theories that you use. Makesure and define the concept before jumping into analysis. Show me your knowledge andunderstanding of the concept and then apply it. (You may not use any examples orconcepts that you have used in discussion board assignments this semester).LIST OF KEY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL CONCEPTS: (PLEASE HAVE ATLEAST 6 KEY TERMS INCLUDING SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM)*DEFINITIONS ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE, I have also put the pagenumbers to can cite properly)– Symbolic Interaction (p.9) – Discrimination (p.456)– Attitude (p.244) – Norm (p.445)– Subjective norms (p.265) – Role (p.502), Values (p.513)– Body language (p.283) – Social Class (p.504), Status (p.502), Position (p.502),Alienation (P.533) – Fateful events (P.536)– Communication (p.272) – Social Networks (p.502) , Social Structure (p.502)– Communication accuracy (p.275) – Upward Mobility (p.504)– Empathy (p.346) – Powerlessness (P.536)– Egoism (p.345) – Role Overload (p.519)– Personal Norms (p.355) – Authority (p.332), Persuasion (p.314), Promise (p.328)– Frustration (p.372) – Bystander Effect (p.361)– Victim-blame (p.389)– Loneliness (p.433)– Group Cohesion (p.442)– Primary Group (p.441) or Secondary Group (p.441)– Conformity (p.446)I expect you to write a coherent essay that relates these concepts to one another anddemonstrates not only your understanding of what these concepts mean in general buthow they relate specifically to your real life experience.You should choose a subject that holds a great deal of meaning for you. You are likely towrite a stronger paper, and learn more about yourself, if you write about something thathas affected you in a profound way.Your papers are confidential…no one else but Dr. will see them.You MUST substantially incorporate class readings and course material to support yourclaims. You must also organize your paper using subheadings and themes. Each conceptthat you use should be a subheading of your paper. You many not use any direct quotes.You need to put the information into your own words, but make sure to cite properly!CITE!!!HOW YOU’LL BE GRADEDI will assess your journal concepts paper on the following criteria (use this as a checklist):1. Degree and quality of analytic effort (most important, 70 points)a. how insightful is your SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL analysis, ie., does it gobeyond a superficial treatment of the subject and get at underlying themes andpatternsb. have you CLEARLY demonstrated that the course material has enlighted youranalysis, i.e, to what extent does your paper represent a type of analysis thatyou could not have achieved without taking this coursec. do you present your ideas in a logical fashion–does your analysis make sensed. does your analysis integrate key concepts in meaningful, thought-provokingwayse. have you used the concepts and symbolic interactionims accurately?f. do you properly cite the course work and use in-text citations correctly2. Organizational structure and writing style (20 points)a. is your paper easy to read, are your sentences lucidb. is your paper well organized with topic sentences and logical transitionsbetween paragraphsc. is your paper free of grammatical errorsd. is there a sense of continuity from the beginning to the ende. have you included a strong opening and conclusion?3. Quality of professional presentation (10 points)a. have you double and triple checked your paper to eliminate typos andmisspellingsb. is your paper organized with subheadingsc. have you followed my directions for preparing your paper includingpage numbers, double spacing WITHOUT extra spacing between paragraphs,12pt font, times new roman, one inch margins?d. do you not use direct quotes? You may not use direct quotes…you need to putthe material into your own words but still cite…paraphrase.e. have you submitted your paper on or before the due date?*** IMPORTANT FOR ALL STUDENTSAll information from the book, articles, lecture and other sources must be referenced and citedwithin the body of the paper as well as properly listed in a reference page at the end of the paper.In-line references should include the author(s) last name(s) and the year (e.g.,(Cragun and Nielsen, 2009). At the end of the paper you should have an alphabetized listof references that includes all of the articles you read and discussed in ASA format:Cragun, Ryan T., and Michael Nielsen. 2009. “Fighting Over “Mormon”: MediaCoverage of the FLDS and LDS.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.DEFINITIONS– Symbolic Interaction: A theoretical perspective based on the premise that humannature and social order are products of communicate among people.– Attitude: Predisposition to respond to a particular object in a generallyfavorable or unfavorable way– Subjective norms: A individuals perception of other’s beliefs about whether abehavior is appropriate and their motivation to comply with those expectations– Body language :– Communication: Process through which people transmit information about theirideas and feeling to one another– Communication accuracy: The extent to which the message inferred buy alistener from a communication matches the message intended by the speaker– Empathy: Emotional response to others as if we ourselves were in that personssituation; feeling pleasure at another’s pleasure or pain.– Egoism: Helping behavior motivated by a helpers own sense of self-gratification– Personal Norms : Feelings of moral obligations to perform specific actions thatstem from an individuals internalized system of values– Frustration : The blocking of goal directed activity. Frustration leads toaggression– Discrimination : Overt acts, occurring without apparent justification that treatmember of certain out- groups in an unfair or disadvantageous manner.– Victim-blame: When responsibility for a sexual assault is placed on the victimrather that the perpetrator– Bystander Effect: The tendency for bystanders in an emergency to help less oftenand less quickly as the number of bystanders present increases.– Loneliness : An unpleasant, subjective experience that results from the lack ofsocial relationships satisfying in either quantity or quality– Role: A set of functions to be performed by a person on behalf of a group ofwhich he or she is a member; closer of rules indicating the set of duties to beperformed by a member occupying a given position within a group.– Social Networks: The sets of interpersonal relationships associated with the socialposition a person occupies.– Social Structure: The ordered and persisting relationships among the positions ina social system.– Social Class: Persons who share a common status in society. One’s class standingmay be based on occupational prestige and income.– Status: The social ranking of a person’s position– Position: A designated location in a social system– Alienation : The sense that one is uninvolved in the social world or lacks controlover it.– Fateful events: Events that are beyond an individuals control, unpredictable,often life-threatening often large in magnitude and that disrupt peoples usualactivities.– Values: Enduring beliefs that certain patterns of behavior or end states arepreferable to others– Upward Mobility: Movement of a person from an occupation lower in prestigeand income to one higher in prestige and income– Powerlessness: The sense of having little or no control over events– Role Overload: Condition in which the demands placed on a person by his or herroles exceed the amount of time, energy, and other resources available to meetthose demands– Group Cohesion: A property of a group, specifically the degree to which membersof a group desire the remain in that group and resist leaving it. A highly cohesivegroup will maintain a firm hold over its members time, energy and loyalty andcommitment.– Norm: In groups, a standard or rule that species how members are expected tobehave under given circumstances; expectations concerning which behaviors areacceptable and which are unacceptable for specific persons in specific situations.– Primary Group: Group with strong emotional ties and bonds that endure overtime. This type of groups tends to be more informal and intimate than othergroups that individuals belong to.– Secondary Group: A group that is formal and impersonal, often organized aroundinstrumental goals– Authority: The capacity of one group member to issue orders to others – that is, todirect or regulate the behavior of other members by invoking rights that arevested in his or her role– Persuasion: An effort by a source to change the beliefs or attitudes of a targetperson through the use of information or argument.– Promise: An influence technique that is a communication taking the generalforms, “If you do X (which I want), then I will do (what you want)”.– Conformity: Adherence by an individual to group norms so that behavior lieswithin the range of tolerable behaviorNeeds to be in ASA Format:DeLamater, John D., Daniel J. Myers, and Jessica L. Collett. 2015. SocialPsychology. Boulder: Westview Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group.
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