Choose any topic that occurs in any society and find a "problem" to make strange. Your topic doesn't need to be something you consider bad or negative, but it can be. Or it can be about something you're interested in, such as fashion or music videos or tattoos or gender roles.

Then, find 1 scholarly article and 1 pop culture article from the year of your birth to examine how that topic was part of society at that time.

Then, find 1 scholarly article and 1 pop culture article from the past year on the topic to examine how that topic is part of the same society today.

Font: No larger than Times New Roman 12 or equivalent

Length and Layout: 1 artistic cover page on computer paper

3 single-spaced pages of scholarly writing

1 separate page for References at the end of the paper

Terminology: Include these 7 terms at least once wherever and however they serve the research:

sociological imagination

society 

culture 

social fact 

taken-for-granted

problematic

social institution

References (at least 4 sources)

Use at least two pop culture items (such as videos, magazines, newspapers, TV shows, music lyrics, pamphlets, graffiti) and at least two scholarly items (journals, texts).

Cite clearly in the body of the paper any points and positions from each source to assist in doing YOUR work on the topic by connecting any dots between what each source says, then adding your impression(s). NO WIKIPEDIA references, please.