The Modern Family
New Family Diversity
FORMAT OF PAPER:
Identify your chosen topic, and discuss your decision.
Utilizing your text and at least two additional resource, provide an understanding of the topic (definition, data, examples, etc.).
Choose three theoretical perspectives (structural functionalism, social conflict, feminism, exchange, symbolic interactionist, or modernity) to analyze your topic.
Include an overview of each theory, its key focus, and how it can be applied to your topic.
Conclude with a list of basic questions a theorist from each perspective would ask about your chosen topic.
Articulate a position on the topic, given what you learned about the topic.
Discuss how this position takes into account the complexity of the topic.
Discuss the limitations of the position.
Discuss how your position acknowledges and synthesizes others’ point of views (as presented via different theoretical perspectives).
Sample Solution