Environmental Crisis
Thesis: Consumption of items produces an underlying impact on the environment, and these impacts occur throughout a product’s lifecycle. The paper offers a feasible outlook on the environment and its relationship with the choice of the product purchased. Human ideologies and opinions on the selection of products and the environmental relationship are also identified.
Summary Description: Write a 1500-1750 word (not including bibliography/references) sociological autobiography in which you appropriately use a minimum of six sociological (maximum eight) concepts to demonstrate that you understand the role of societal factors that have influenced specified aspects of your life.
Specific Criteria:
1.The essay requires you to demonstrate your comprehension of required readings (these are mainly textbook chapters), a selection of supplemental course readings, and a selection of sociological concepts. Specifically:
Direct engagement with and reference to a minimum of five (and maximum of eight) textbook chapters.
Direct engagement with and reference to a minimum of two (and maximum of four) additional sources from your supplementary readings and videos list.
Direct engagement with a minimum of six (maximum eight) sociological concepts from your textbook. You must explain the concepts and then use them accurately to demonstrate that you understand them. The list of approved concepts is provided below. Please BOLD concepts at first use.
Your essay should be approximately 6-7 pages in length (12pt. font, double spaced), or approximately 1750 words. Be succinct and effective in your content delivery. Use a constant 1.5″ margin on each page. Always include page numbers for citations or quotes from the assigned reading. Properly number the pages (page 1 is the first text page).
Every time you refer to textbook or other source material, you must include a citation! We are very concerned about thorough and proper citation of your source material (see the discussion of academic honesty). References should not be an after-thought. They are not optional. References (how you acknowledge the scholarly work of others) are a crucial aspect of scholarly writing. We need to know where ideas come from.
Reference style in also really important! How you cite a source impacts the ability of others to research that source. As well, inconsistent or incomplete reference style looks sloppy and gives the reader a negative impression of your skills and commitment to scholarly writing. You may use any conventional academic referencing format, such as APA, MLA, and Chicago Style, etc. You will find instructions for a number of styles on Spark. If you have not already done so, it may be helpful to choose a reference style, learn it well, and employ it consistently in your academic writing.
When the textbook authors are citing the work of someone else, you must include the name of the original source of information.
Provide a proper in-text citation the first time that you reference a specific textbook chapter or other approved source. Here are some examples of how you can cite your textbook: (Johnston et al., 2017, chapter 2, 40). Or “In chapter two…. (Johnston et al., 2017, 40).
For subsequent paraphrased references to that chapter you may include reference to the chapter only (e.g. Chapter 1).
However, subsequent direct quotations must include proper in-text citations including the authors’ name, publication year, and page number.
If you are using a paper copy of the textbook, please include page numbers (here represented by 40) with every reference to the textbook. We realize that this may not be possible with the e-version of the textbook. In these instances please include an asterisk * in place of the page number.