For the third part of your final project, you will expand on your three summaries. Your goal is to move beyond the individualistic explanations for certain behavior trends that you observed and to offer a thoughtful discussion on the role the larger social factors and institutions that helped shape these trends. Think of it as trying to understand why whole groups or categories of people (HS students, Latina women, White men, 9th graders who drink, etc, etc) behave in certain ways or engage in certain behaviors more or less than others. Please identify one reading per trend that helps you understand what social processes are at work. The readings could come from your text or from any other appropriate scholarly source. For each of your three trends, write a page of summary, incorporating the information you reported for part 2. In that summary, please include a brief discussion of your reading/source as it helps you understand the trends. Finally, please offer a reflection on the role that family as an institution plays in affecting or mediating risky behaviors that the Youth Survey respondents engage in. A couple of pointers  -- this part of your project is not a second draft of Part 2, so please don’t copy your trend write-ups verbatim, as they appeared in part 2. By all means, incorporate the factual information, but do it in a creative way. I will expect these summaries to be well written, spell checked and checked for grammar. Include a bibliography of your sources and be very particular about attributing your sources – if you are using somebody else’s words in your summaries, you have to give credit. All rules for plagiarism apply. ...

1. For the third part of your final project, you will expand on your
three summaries. Your goal is to move beyond the
individualistic explanations for certain behavior trends that you
observed and to offer a thoughtful discussion on the role the
larger social factors and institutions that helped shape these
trends. Think of it as trying to understand why whole groups or
categories of people (HS students, Latina women, White men,
9th graders who drink, etc, etc) behave in certain ways or
engage in certain behaviors more or less than others. Please
identify one reading per trend that helps you understand what
social processes are at work. The readings could come from
your text or from any other appropriate scholarly source. For
each of your three trends, write a page of summary,
incorporating the information you reported for part 2. In that
summary, please include a brief discussion of your
reading/source as it helps you understand the trends. Finally,
please offer a reflection on the role that family as an institution
plays in affecting or mediating risky behaviors that the Youth
Survey respondents engage in.
A couple of pointers -- this part of your project is not a second
draft of Part 2, so please don’t copy your trend write-ups
verbatim, as they appeared in part 2. By all means, incorporate
the factual information, but do it in a creative way.
I will expect these summaries to be well written, spell checked
and checked for grammar.
Include a bibliography of your sources and be very particular
about attributing your sources – if you are using somebody
else’s words in your summaries, you have to give credit. All
rules for plagiarism apply.