Sociology Exam
Please answer both questions on Canvas
8 pages, maximum
Please cite your sources carefully as Turnitin is powerful in detecting plagiarism.
Using Bunch’s “After the Ivory Tower Falls” as well as your own Sociological Insight, analyze the articles on college education linked below.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/opinion/life-expectancy-college-degree.htmlLinks to an external site.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/jason-wingards-edtech-griftopia/Links to an external site.
(75% of Final Exam grade)
Using Levitin’s “Weaponized Lies” as well as your own Sociological Insight, analyze Lepore’s article on data. Lepore asks us to consider the value of truth in public discourse and Levitin gives us some tools to do this.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/03/the-data-delusion?_sp=6b02a20d-8b0c-4654-9d56-0672a562347f.1713720876384Links to an external site.