For this task, you should write an expository essay on the following topic.
Modernity has created a large range of new challenges for our society. Please find a cu
ent example of one such challenge and use one of the following key ideas to describe and explore the issues that contribute to the challenge.
· Social Construction
· Hegemony
· Discourse
You should incorporate at least two academic sources in your essay.
KEY IDEAS CHOSEN FROM ABOVE IS: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION
Instructions
· You will need to use one or two non-academic sources (eg. newspaper articles) to illustrate your example, but they do not substitute for a required number of FOUR relevant academic sources from the readings area on vUWS.
I HAVE ATTATCHED A SEPARATE FILE WITH READINGS
Requirements
Your essay should be 1200 words (+/- 10 %). If your essay is less than the word count it is likely that you have omitted something and therefore your assignment is unlikely to pass.
The text must be typed and double spaced. Use a legible font (eg Times New Roman). The font size should be 12 pt.
Use referencing and citation following Harvard WSU (UWS) stylehttp:
li
ary.uws.edu.au/uws_li
ary/guides
eferencing-citation
Your essay will need a minimum of at least four of the texts from the “further reading” area on vUWS
Giddens, A., & Alexander Street Press XXXXXXXXXXModernity and self-identity self and society in the late modern age (Social theory). Cam
idge: Polity Press.
Unknown, 2014. “Modernity” IN Scott, J.(Ed.), A Dictionary of Sociology. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 14 May. 2018, from http:
www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/ XXXXXXXXXX0001/acref XXXXXXXXXXe-1461.
Readings about Social Construction, available from the li
ary:
Culture and Cognition : Patterns in the Social Construction of Reality by Wayne H. Brekhus
https:
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uwsau/detail.action?docID=4030056
Elder-Vass, D., 2012. The reality of social construction, Cam
idge ; New York: Cam
idge University Press.
The Social Construction of Climate Change : Power, Knowledge, Norms, Discourses
By Mary E. Pettenge
https:
ebookcentral.proquest.com/li
uwsau/detail.action?docID=4426197
Environment and Global Modernity by Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P. J. Mol, Frederick H Buttel, Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P. J. Mol, and Frederick H. Buttel
https:
ebookcentral.proquest.com/li
uwsau/detail.action?docID=1024139
Other readings:
https:
www.cam
idge.org/core/services/aop-cam
idge-core/content/view/S XXXXXXXXXX
https:
www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/what-we-mean-when-we-say-race-is-a-social-construct/275872
http:
www.fgcsic.es/lychnos/en_EN/articles/modernity_understanding_our_present_time
Original Listing
https:
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