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My 10 Year Plan Research Paper: Family and Career:(10-pages double spaced; Times Roman; 12 point font) (15%) Each paper will require learners to correctly quote five key points made in the readings we read this quarter. In addition you must quote from at least two academic research articles on a key social issue affecting families today. All papers must use the American Sociological Association (ASA) citation format, including authors’ last names, year of publication, and page number of the quote:SAMPLE PAPERDownload SAMPLE PAPER
Students will write a 10-page double-spaced person narrative that describes your ideal family or single life and career ten years in the future while placing these plans within their expected social context. You will describe the type of work and work environment you will attain, your family dynamic, your choice of transportation, and your home type.
You are to do this while including research on the main issue you believe is affecting families today and how you see this issue possible hurdle in your ideal life in the future. What is the most challenging social issue to families today? Karl Marx believed the material conditions shaped our culture. The mode of production was the term Marx used to refer to ‘how we make a living using current technology’. How will new technologies and related changing attitudes affect our future careers and life choices? How will this issue affect you and your family’s economic and social life in the future? Will new technologies shape the big social issue (you choose to focus on in this paper) for the better or for the worse? What new technologies do you think will be available in ten years that can ameliorate this social issue? Will new technologies have both positive and negative affects? What does the research say about this issue? How will you navigate this as a thinking and active member of society? How might you be part of the solution? How might you respond to these challenges in a preventative way?
The goal is to further understand your own life goals, core values, sense of ‘self’ and ‘identity’, personal attitudes (optimism or pessimism), and to reflect on the kinds of societal changes you foresee happening in the future in terms of societal advances and structural constraints as well as technology and cultural changes. In addition to explaining how the structures of future opportunities and social and personal constraints might shape your experience.
