SY 3550 Social Problems
SUNY College at Old Westbury, Department of Sociology

Assignments:

Date Due (in-class) Assignment Date Assigned
     
October 17, 2001 Detailed Literature Review Assignment distributed in class. October 3, 2001
October 3, 2001 Write a "reader response" to the assigned reading (Chapter 8: "The Crack Attack: America's latest drug scare, 1986-1992," by Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine, in Images of Issues, ed. by Joel Best), focusing on the main argument you believe the author is trying to make. October 1, 2001
October 1, 2001 Write a "reader response" to the assigned reading (Chapter 2: "Horror Stories and the Construction of Child Abuse," by John M. Johnson in Images of Issues, ed. by Joel Best). September 26, 2001
September 24, 2001

Write a coherent paragraph in Standard English, in which you name a research topic or question and use the remainder of the paragraph to descibe the kind of evidence you would need to better undertsand the nature of the social problem.

September 17, 2001
September 17, 2001 Compose a paragraph relating to some social problem that you find interesting. September 10, 2001
September 10, 2001 Bring to class a newspaper article that deals in some way with a social problem. September 5, 2001