The assignment information:
Write an essay that explains what different sorts of
evidence drawn upon or covered in DD102 can be used to support the claim
that identities intersect to produce inequalities.
Assignment Booklet October 2022
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This requires you to select examples from the range of study materials in
the ‘Connecting lives’ strand and to set out for your reader what kinds of
‘evidence’ these provide. There is a variety of material on identities and
inequality in the strand but for the purposes of this TMA you need to focus
upon that which speaks directly to the issues of multiple identities and how
they combine to produce inequalities. Your essay is likely to be better if
you can draw on a wide range of study materials from the strand.
Information sources:
BOOK MATERIALS:
* Chapter 1 of Understanding Social
Lives, Part 2, Section 1.3
This section introduces in broad terms
how identities are used by social
scientists and may be a useful starting
point for your essay.
* Chapter 1 of Understanding Social
Lives, Part 2, Section 3.1
This section explores ‘othering’.
* Chapter 1 of Understanding Social
Lives, Part 2, Section 4
The ways in which identity categories
intersect and can lead to experiences
of multiple inequalities or privileges is
explored in this section.
* Chapter 2 of Understanding Social
Lives, Part 2, Introduction
This section introduces the idea that
different social categories combine to
create inequalities and opportunities
in sport.
* Chapter 2 of Understanding Social
Lives, Part 2, Section 2.1
The ways in which different identities
intersect to create inequalities in sport
is explored.
* Chapter 2 of Understanding Social
Lives, Part 2, Sections 4.3 and 4.4
These sections discuss sporting
intersections, that is between
disability, gender, class and ethnicity.
* Chapter 2 of Understanding Social
Lives, Part 2, Section 5
The conclusion to this chapter gives a
useful summary of material on the
inequalities highlighted in sport which
are made and remade through
intersection of categories of identity.
* Chapter 5 of Understanding Social
Lives, Part 2, Section 3
The production and reproduction of
social, economic and political
inequalities is explored in this section.
* Chapter 5 of Understanding Social
Lives, Part 2, Section 4
This section shows how social
scientists use evidence and is useful
in summarising some different
approaches to the question ‘How do
social scientists know?’
One way or the other, your answer will have to do three broad things:
. Firstly, you will need to provide a clear indication that you understand
what the terms: identity, intersection and inequality mean.
. Secondly, you will need engage with the claim that identities intersect to
produce inequalities and then select appropriate evidence to support the
claim.
. Finally, you will have to highlight the different sorts of evidence
contained in the module that have been or might be used to support that
claim.
That’s quite a lot of things to do inarestricted number of words, so you’ll
need to spend some time before you begin writing in earnest on selecting
material and developingaclear structure that helps you do all three of these
things and thus clearly answer the question.
In terms of selecting your material:
. The task of choosing what sort of evidence social scientists use to
support arguments is central to the DD102 question ‘How do social
scientists know?’ This question can be used as a guide to identifying
which examples of evidence you might use in your answer to support
the claim that identities intersect to produce inequalities. Your task in
this TMA, then, is to concentrate on selecting evidence to show the
ways in which identities intersect to produce inequalities.
You will also need to select some key examples or case studies through
which you can illustrate and demonstrate that the intersection of
identities produces inequalities. If you review the main sources of
information for the essay in the table above, you’ll realise that there are
more than you can do justice to in the words available, so carefully
choose the ones that you feel will best bring your answer to life (which
will include identifying which ones you can use to showcase different
kinds of evidence).
In terms of structuring your material:
. Good answers will also be clearly structured and written, address the
question in a direct and focused manner, and will be able to show an
understanding of how evidence is used in the social sciences.
. Remember to define key terms early on. Make sure, in particular, that
you outline what intersection means upfront in your essay, with some
reference to the links between intersection and inequalities.
. The main body of the essay should progress through a series of key
points made in paragraphs that advance your explanation of how
different sorts of evidence in DD102 can be used to support the claim
that identities intersect to produce inequalities. See if you can use your
carefully chosen case studies or examples to show how different forms
of evidence can be used to demonstrate this claim.
. Your conclusion should then sum up your response to the claim that
identities intersect to produce inequalities.
. Finally, remember to reference the sources you are drawing on, both in
the body of your essay and in a reference list at the end of your essay,
and to include a word count. The reference list at the end of your essay
is not included within the word count but the references in the body of
your essay are included.
**Please use correct in paragraph referencing. (all incite references will be checked to make sure that they correspond correctly to the writing. No other source material can not be used other than the Open University that is provided. (I have uploaded Chapters 1,2 and 5)
***** This is the reference for the work, Please use it and add the pages that were used. *****
Dixon, J., Hinchcliffe, S. and Hassan, I. (2022) ‘Connecting people and
places’, in Clarke, J., Doye, Z., Hassan, I. and Woodward, K. (eds)
Understanding social lives, part 2. 2nd edn. Milton Keynes: The Open
University
