Im looking for helpful sites with alot of information for my paper. I'm am stuck on this and it's due soon. My paper will be on afghanistan but here is exactly what i need. THANKS “Doing Sociology†Assignment 2 Due: April 22, 2011 – before 11 p.m. In trying to understand inequality, sociologists focus our attention on the concept of life chances. This is a term first used by Max Weber to describe the opportunities to achieve economic prosperity in life; our life chances differ considerably depending not only on the family into which we are born, but also the country in which our family resides. In this assignment you will be researching not only what it means to live in another nation, but also what broad factors influence what your life chances will be. Because we did not cover the topic of global inequality, this second writing assignment will give you an opportunity to look more deeply into the subject. As you have learned, individuals and groups are ranked in a system of stratification reflecting their unequal access to and possession of resources within society. The same ranking can be applied to the nations of the world. A widely used framework for ranking countries is the World Bank classification of nations; it designates four clusters of nations according to the per-person gross national income (GNI); the GNI is derived by taking the total value of a nation's annual output of goods and services and dividing it by the total population. Here are the categories: •High income nations: A GNI of $12,196 or more. In 2009 there were 69 nations that fell within this category. •Upper middle income nations: A GNI of between $3,946 and $12,195. In 2009 there were 48 nations included in this category. •Lower middle income nations: A GNI of between $996 and 3,945. In 2009 there were 56 nations in this category. •Low income nations: A GNI of $995 or less. In 2009 there were 40 nations in this category. The focus of the assignment is on what your life chances would be if you were growing up in a country that is classified as a “low-income†nation as opposed to growing up/living in the U.S. Your first step is to pick a nation to research. In 2009 the World Bank lists the following as low income nations: Afghanistan Guinea Nepal Bangladesh Guinea-Bisau Niger Benin Haiti Rwanda Burkina Faso Kenya Sierra Leone Burundi Korea, Dem Rep. Solomon Islands Cambodia Kyrgyz Republic Somalia Central African Republic Lao PDR Tajikistan Chad Liberia Tanzania Comoros Madagascar Togo Congo, Dem. Rep Malawi Uganda Eritrea Mali Zambia Ethiopia Mauritania Zimbabwe Gambia, The Mozambique Ghana Myanmar You are going to pick one of these nations and then carry out research about the living conditions and the opportunities individuals have to achieve economic prosperity in life. In your research you should consider issues like opportunities for education and levels of literacy, opportunities to participate in the political sector (both in terms of voting and holding office), opportunities for employment and typical wages, the type of family structure and marriage patterns that are common, the overall level of health and access to health care, life expectancy, and issues of hunger and malnutrition. One of the challenges of writing about life in another country, especially a country that does not have the level of wealth as the U.S., is that we have a tendency to be ethnocentric. I want you to try and avoid that by looking at life from the perspective of an insider. I am not looking for you to compare and contrast what life is like in this country relative to the U.S. Rather, what I want you to present is a solid description of what a person’s life chances are and then provide some discussion of why they have those particular life chances. To illustrate what I mean, if you are a female and writing about Afghanistan, you will likely find out that only 30% of the girls attend school. Given this, you would conclude that with respect to opportunities for an education, the typical girl is not likely to receive much formal education. You would then go on to talk about why girls are less likely to be educated; it could be tied to traditional gender roles and the expectation that a girl will marry young and bear many children or the policies of the Taliban governments. Your paper should be about 5 pages in length. It should include: •an introduction, a multiple-paragraphed body, and a conclusion. •a clear thesis statement that will tell the reader what the focus of the paper will be. When you introduce the thesis you should also provide some initial statement of what main points you will present to support the thesis. •Credible evidence that provides strong development for each of your main points and that cumulatively supports the thesis. •In-text references for facts, opinions, and research that is taken from other sources. •A full work cited page that includes at least three different crediable so
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pick your country, then go to the CIA fact book web site example: bangladesh https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bg.html almost anything you will need to know about a country and its economic and political structure has been gathered by the CIA
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