Week Three Assignment Worksheet
1) Select one aspect of your own culture from the list provided for Part I. Be sure to review
the relevant sections of the textbook for each topic. Once you've made your selection, please
delete all other options.
Race
Education
Communication
Gender
Childrearing
Courtship and Marriage
Rites of passage
Religion
Politics
Economics
2) Select a source to use for Part I of the paper. You will be using your textbook and the
article by Miner for this section as well, but for this assignment, include the source you
found on your own. Review the tutorial on Evaluating sources and enter the reference in
the space below.
Reference entry in APA format:
3) Select one article from the list for Part II. Once you've made your selection, please delete
all other options.
Atran, S. (2003). Genesis of suicide terrorism. Science, 299(5612), 1534-1539. Retrieved from
the EBSCOhost database.
Becker. A. E. (2004). Television, disordered eating, and young women in Fiji: Negotiating body
image and identity during rapid social change. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 28(4),
533-559. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database.
Grey, S. (2008). Historical roots, contemporary relevance: Explaining the persistence of polygyny
in Sub- Saharan Africa. Undercurrent Journal, 5(3), 6-19. Retrieved from the
EBSCOhost database.
Hoodfar, H. (1993). The veil in their minds and on our heads: The persistence of colonial images
of Muslim women. Resources for Feminist Researchers, 22, 5-18. Retrieved from
http://www.umass.edu/wost/syllabi/spring06/hoodfar.pdf
Murphy, F. (2011). Archives of sorrow: An exploration of Australia's stolen generations and their
journey into the past. History and Anthropology, 22(4), 481-495. Retrieved from the
EBSCOhost database.
Tsuji, Y. (2011). Rites of passage to death and afterlife in Japan. Generations, 35(3), 28-33.
Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database
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Week Three Assignment Worksheet
4) Summarize each of your sources.
Summary of your source for Part I (include one to two paragraphs). Enter the
summary in the space below.
Summary of your source for Part II (include one to two paragraphs). Enter the
summary in the space below.
5) Write a working thesis statement based on your sources. See this example.
Working Thesis Statement:
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