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Google your name. Discuss various places you found your personal information online

 Instructions  For this assignment, you will write a one-page essay explaining how you present yourself online. Complete both Parts A and B.  Part A: Google your name. Discuss various places you found your personal information online. Did anything surprise you? In what ways can your personal information online influence personal or professional opportunities? How does this illustrate that Goffman’s dramaturgy approach applies to one’s own digital footprint? Note: It is acceptable if you found very little about yourself or found many websites with people with your same name. Just do your best to discuss what resulted when you tried searching your name online.  Part B: Open your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or another online social media networking site. Discuss how Goffman’s theory or view on presentation of self applies to how you present yourself in social media. How does the way you are managing your self-presentation on soc...

The impact of COVID-19 on impoverished communities in Canada

Department of Sociology and Criminology SOC 1200 Introduction to Sociology For your term 1 essay, you may choose ONE of the following two options: Using your course materials (textbook and audio lectures), 2 academic journal articles and 2 newspaper articles, write an argumentative essay (5-6) pages that discusses the impact of COVID-19 on impoverished communities in Canada. You may use a particular theory to frame your paper or you may instead choose to discuss different sociological perspectives or concepts operating beneath the issue. When building your argument, consider questions such as: How have remote learning, business closures, loss of work, access to vaccination or vaccination sites impacted impoverished peoples? How does this reflect or contradict the sociological perspective(s) you have chosen to write about? How might the issue be explained using sociological concepts such as social stratification, social class, socioeconomic status, an...