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 |