Please review the instructions for the Final Research Paper in Week Five before you begin working on this assignment. This assignment is designed to help you begin working on your Final Research Paper by requiring you to choose the sources you are going to use and summarize their contents. It will also give your instructor a chance to provide you with feedback on your thesis statement and your topic. Your Final Research Paper will consist of two main parts. See the flow chart for a quick overview of the assignment. Part I To begin, select one aspect of your own culture from the following list. In your Final Research Paper, you will be describing this practice from an etic (or outsider’s) perspective, using the textbook and the article by Miner (1956) as a guide. Aspects of Culture (Choose One) Relevant Research Section in the Textbook Race Chapter 3: Biology and Culture: Race and Ethnicity Education Chapter 3: Biology and Culture: Race and Ethnicity Section 3.2: Race, Cultural Ability, and Intelligence Chapter 4: Language and Culture Section 4.6: Language Change Communication Chapter 4: Language and Culture Gender Chapter 5: Gender and Culture Childrearing Chapter 6: Social Organization and Lifecycle Section 6.4: Lifecycle – Enculturation, Childhood, and Adolescence Courtship and Marriage Chapter 6: Social Organization and Lifecycle Section 6.4: Lifecycle – Courtship and Marriage Rites of passage Chapter 6: Social Organization and Lifecycle Section 6.4: Lifecycle – Rites of Passage Religion Chapter 7: Religion and Culture Politics Chapter 8: The Political System Economics Chapter 9: The Economic System Next, identify at least one reputable scholarly source to back up your ideas. This can be a scholarly article from the Ashford University Library or a source of reliable statistics. Below are potential sources you can use to support your analysis (you can also conduct your own research to find other sources): United States Census Bureau ( http://www.census.gov/ ) Gallup ( http://www.gallup.com/home.aspx ) Pew Research Center ( http://www.pewresearch.org/ ) Part II Now, choose one of this week’s required articles to use to describe an aspect of another culture from an emic (insider’s) perspective. Once you have identified the sources you will be using for the Part I and Part II sections of your paper, you are ready to complete the worksheet . Make sure that you cite and reference each source in APA format. Refer to the Ashford Writing Center’s In-Text Citation Guide and APA References List for assistance. For each of your chosen sources, you should provide a brief summary (one to two paragraphs) of the source. This summary will help you identify and explain the main points in the source. This will help you think about how to apply the material in these sources to the Final Research Paper. If you are unsure of how to correctly summarize your sources, please visit the Ashford Writing Center’s Guidelines for Summarizing Sources p.

1. Please review the instructions for the Final Research Paper in
Week Five before you begin working on this assignment. This
assignment is designed to help you begin working on your Final
Research Paper by requiring you to choose the sources you are
going to use and summarize their contents. It will also give your
instructor a chance to provide you with feedback on your thesis
statement and your topic.
Your Final Research Paper will consist of two main parts. See
the
flow chart
for a quick overview of the assignment.
Part I
To begin, select
one
aspect of your own culture from the following list. In your
Final Research Paper, you will be describing this practice from
an etic (or outsider’s) perspective, using the textbook and the
article by Miner (1956) as a guide.
Aspects of Culture
(Choose One)
Relevant Research Section in the Textbook
Race
Chapter 3: Biology and Culture: Race and Ethnicity
Education
Chapter 3: Biology and Culture: Race and Ethnicity
Section 3.2: Race, Cultural Ability, and Intelligence
Chapter 4: Language and Culture
Section 4.6: Language Change
Communication
Chapter 4: Language and Culture
Gender
Chapter 5: Gender and Culture
Childrearing
Chapter 6: Social Organization and Lifecycle Section

2. 6.4: Lifecycle – Enculturation, Childhood, and Adolescence
Courtship and Marriage
Chapter 6: Social Organization and Lifecycle
Section 6.4: Lifecycle – Courtship and Marriage
Rites of passage
Chapter 6: Social Organization and Lifecycle
Section 6.4: Lifecycle – Rites of Passage
Religion
Chapter 7: Religion and Culture
Politics
Chapter 8: The Political System
Economics
Chapter 9: The Economic System
Next, identify at least one reputable scholarly source to back up
your ideas. This can be a scholarly article from the Ashford
University Library or a source of reliable statistics. Below are
potential sources you can use to support your analysis (you can
also conduct your own research to find other sources):
United States Census Bureau (
http://www.census.gov/
)
Gallup (
http://www.gallup.com/home.aspx
)
Pew Research Center (
http://www.pewresearch.org/
)
Part II
Now, choose
one
of this week’s
required articles
to use to describe an aspect of another culture from an emic
(insider’s) perspective.
Once you have identified the sources you will be using for the
Part I and Part II sections of your paper, you are ready to

3. complete the
worksheet
. Make sure that you cite and reference each source in APA
format. Refer to the Ashford Writing Center’s
In-Text Citation Guide
and
APA References List
for assistance.
For each of your chosen sources, you should provide a brief
summary (one to two paragraphs) of the source. This summary
will help you identify and explain the main points in the source.
This will help you think about how to apply the material in
these sources to the Final Research Paper.
If you are unsure of how to correctly summarize your sources,
please visit the Ashford Writing Center’s
Guidelines for Summarizing Sources
page.
Once you have read and summarized your sources, you are
ready to write the working thesis statement for your Final
Research Paper. This does not have to be the exact statement
that you use in your Final Research Paper, but it should tell the
reader what you plan to analyze, discuss, or explore. What is
your main point or argument? Think back to the thesis
statements you read and identified last week. If you are
concerned about your thesis statement, consult the Ashford
Writing Center’s
Thesis Generator Tool
and/or visit the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center
.
You may have come across additional scholarly sources as you
conducted your research on your etic or emic topics. If you
would like to use any additional sources, be sure to list them in
APA format. You are not required to have any sources beyond
the two you summarized, but additional sources may help you
better support your points.

4. Late Policy
: Written assignments (essays, journals, presentations) are due
on the specified days in the course. Written assignments will be
subject to a late penalty of up to 10% per day up to three days
late. If written assignments are submitted after 72 hours past the
due date, instructors can give a penalty up to and including a
grade of 0 for the assignment.
Carefully review the
Grading Rubric
for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.