The term paper is a research paper on a major social theorist not covered in this course. The purpose of this assignment is to obtain expert knowledge on the theorist of your choice and to demonstrate your ability to present the knowledge to an academic audience (i.e., to me and to the class). The information you are required to present in this paper includes a) a short biography and intellectual lineage of this person, a list of all books by this person and any major articles/essays considered significant, b) main areas of study, key concepts, and theoretical ideas (a minimum of 4 concepts/terms should be discussed), c) the significance of this theorist in the overall history of sociological theory (including the subfield of sociology influenced mostly by this person’s work), d) your own discussion of where to apply this person’s concepts and ideas (i.e., what kind of research questions and project can you come up with, using this person’s theory?), e)key term glossary and bullet point summary, and f) discussion questions.
