**( Please if you can write it in simple English, the teacher is an easy grader.

**( Please if you can write it in simple English, the teacher is an easy grader. The school is so strict with plagiarism.)**
Length: 1500-2000 (not including ref page/title page; not under and not over this range!!) All papers must have a word count at the top.
References: Ten, Scholarly, cited in the body of the paper. Format/Style: American Sociological Association style
Assignment:
Write a paper that demonstrates a sociological perspective towards health by focusing upon one issue that is relevant to the content of this course. We need not have covered it at the time of your writing, but it should be sociologically relevant. DO NOT WRITE A CLINICAL PAPER!! This paper should offer a critique of clinical perspectives in health, not be one of them!!! First, you will need to choose an issue, or topic, that is exciting for you and relevant from the list below:
Nationalized healthcare in the US, issues of reliability in diagnoses, the social history of medications, the role of third parties, feminist perspectives in health, childhood health, health and race, class, or gender, health in popular culture.
Second, you will need to adopt a particular argument in writing about this topic. For example, if you are discussing medications, will you focus on their impact on self-concept, the politics of marketing such medications, or their increasing role in medical practice? Third, throughout the writing of this paper, you will need to ground your discussion in the literature that comprises the sociology of health and illness. In other words, your references should be relevant to a sociological argument and should be used to back up your claims throughout the paper. The term paper should be argumentative in nature, with a clear thesis, and perfect grammar. It is highly recommended that you have someone proofread the paper before turning it in. I will not correct publishs, but I will look at outlines to let you know if you are on the right track. Late papers will be docked 10% per hour.