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Instructions for the Essay 1 Introduction to Business and Society 2021-2022 SOSC1340-1349ABC Due: See Syllabus page 5  Content: Questions are related to lectures from class 2 to class 5

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Instructions for the Essay 1

Introduction to Business and Society 2021-2022

SOSC1340-1349ABC

Due: See Syllabus page 5 

Content: Questions are related to lectures from class 2 to class 5.

Length: Double spaced, between 750 and 1000 words (including references)

Value: 8%

Late essays will be subject to a -2% penalty per day.

*[Students will be permitted to resubmit through Turnitin after correcting errors revealed by the similarity report, subject to late penalty.]

Planning Your Essay: Getting Started, Exploring and Pulling it Together

The essay writing process involves several stages: formulating a working thesis, organizing your notes and developing an essay plan. For help Getting Started see this SPARK module. Once you have picked an essay topic and identified the course readings you will use, look up the reading questions and ‘wikiwords’ in the course outline. 

Start Exploring by applying the SQ4R reading method to ‘social scientific’ texts or the ‘levels of reading analysis’ to the ‘creative’ texts. This will help you produce the notes that will form the raw materials for your essay. 

Now that you have your notes and your essay plan, start Pulling it Together. Review the assignment instructions and our expectations before you start the writing process. Producing a draft at least a few days before the due date will give you an opportunity to edit your work. The more effort you put into earlier stages of the essay writing process, the easier it will be to write.

Instructions

Pick one of the essay topics below. Make sure you discuss assignment expectations with your TA in tutorial. DO NOT simply answer the questions in the order that they appear in the topic. The order of presentation is something you need to think deeply about: you need to think about what it is that you want to say and the order that it would be best to say it in to show how well you understand the concepts, issues and arguments under consideration. 

Papers should be double spaced, with 12 point font (such as Times New Roman, Arial or Cambria) and one inch margins. Use paragraph format and provide a title page and a bibliography. Each page of your essay (except the title page) must be numbered.

Formal Requirements

Your title page must include your name, student number, TAs name, course’s name and number, section, and submission date. You will only refer to course material and mandatory readings.

Include a properly formatted bibliography at the end of your essay. Your essay must start with a comprehensive introduction which includes: i. The position the author takes on the key question; ii. Your thesis; and iii. An explanation of how your essay will be organized. Your essay must have a clear paragraph structure, each starting with a clear topic sentence.

Prior to starting this essay, students should complete the following two ‘modules’.

*You are required to complete the SPARK module on Academic Integrity

*You are required to complete the SPARK module on Selecting Sources

Essay Topics (choose 1 topic):

1. Provide in your own words the meaning of the concept “society”. Sociologists have identified several characteristics of traditional, modern and postmodern societies. Explain the differences among those three and provide for each type of society at least:
   1. two characteristics in the area of economics and demography;
   2. two characteristics in the area of social organization;
   3. two characteristics in the area of culture, attitudes, and beliefs.

 

2. Compare the commercialization thesis, the historical materialist thesis and the Protestant ethic thesis about on the origin of capitalism. Develop your answer by drawing upon their different understandings of feudalism, the enclosures, and markets.

 

3. Explain the main differences between mainstream economics and heterodox economics. This explanation must include at least a description of the meaning of “homo economicus” and a description of two heterodox perspectives among those presented during the lectures (Marxist, Institutionalist, Anarchist).

 

4. Explain what makes corporations different from individual-owned businesses and provide a summary of the internal and external dimensions of corporate power.