Bullying is a difficult concept to understand and reconcile the consequences. This assignment focuses on the critical thinking skills that are needed to analyze an emotionally charged topic

Write a one to two (1-2) page essay in which you:

1. Identify the most important step in the student's guide to research that you would need in order to analyze bullying.
2. Define the identified critical step of research in your words.
3. Explain how bullying relates to one (1) of the following topics:
   1. the agents of socialization (i.e., family, teachers and school, peers),
   2. formal organizations (i.e., conformity to groups),
   3. different types of deviance (i.e., everyday deviance, sexual deviance, or criminal deviance).

Provide a rationale for your response.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• To keep this essay short and manageable, your only sources for the essay should be the TED video and the sections noted in your text. For this reason, APA citations or references are not required for this assignment.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the professor's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Define the basic concepts used in the discipline of sociology.
• Define the various methodologies for sociological research.
• Identify the sociological perspective to the inequalities of class, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomics, and political aspects.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in sociology.
• Write clearly and concisely about sociology using proper writing mechanics.

• grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubri.

  	Assignment 2: Social Control and Criminal Deviance: Bullying
  Criteria	Unacceptable Below 60% F	Meets Minimum Expectations 60-69% D	Fair 70-79% C	Proficient 80-89% B	Exemplary 90-100% A
  1. Identify the most important step in the student’s guide to research that you would need in order to analyze bullying. Weight: 25%	Did not submit or incompletely identified the most important step in the student’s guide to research that you would need in order to analyze bullying.	Insufficiently identified the most important step in the student’s guide to research that you would need in order to analyze bullying.	Partially identified the most important step in the student’s guide to research that you would need in order to analyze bullying.	Satisfactorily identified the most important step in the student’s guide to research that you would need in order to analyze bullying.	Thoroughly identified the most important step in the student’s guide to research that you would need in order to analyze bullying.
  2. Define the identified critical step of research in your words. Weight: 25%	Did not submit or incompletely defined the identified critical step of research in your words.	Insufficiently defined the identified critical step of research in your words.	Partially defined the identified critical step of research in your words.	Satisfactorily defined the identified critical step of research in your words.	Thoroughly defined the identified critical step of research in your words.
  3. Explain how bullying relates to one (1) of the following topics: a.   the agents of socialization (i.e., family, teachers and school, peers), b.   formal organizations (i.e., conformity to groups), c.   different types of deviance (i.e., everyday deviance, sexual deviance, or criminal deviance). Provide a rationale for your response. Weight: 30%	Did not submit or incompletely explained how bullying relates to one (1) of the specified topics. Did not submit or incompletely provided a rationale for your response.	Insufficiently explained how bullying relates to one (1) of the specified topics. Insufficiently provided a rationale for your response.	Partially explained how bullying relates to one (1) of the specified topics. Partially provided a rationale for your response.	Satisfactorily explained how bullying relates to one (1) of the specified topics. Satisfactorily provided a rationale for your response.	Thoroughly explained how bullying relates to one (1) of the specified topics. Thoroughly provided a rationale for your response.
  4. Writing / Support for ideas Weight: 10%	Never uses explanations, examples, and evidence that logically support ideas.	Rarely uses explanations, examples, and evidence that logically support ideas.	Partially uses explanations, examples, and evidence that logically support ideas.	Mostly uses explanations, examples, and evidence that logically support ideas.	Consistently uses explanations, examples, and evidence that logically support ideas.
  5. Writing / Grammar and mechanics Weight: 10%	Serious and persistent errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.	Numerous errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.	Partially free of errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.	Mostly free of errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.	Free of errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.