(Great English is a must!! No grammar errors are accepted!)

(Papers without a STRONG thesis won’t be accepted)

(Make sure you understand the task)

(1400 words Pages, APA Format)

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Subject of the paper: Race/Labor relation in organized baseball

Requirement: Write a critical, expository paper and a sociological analysis of race or labor relations in organized baseball. In your paper apply and critically evaluate the ideas of Gordon or Lipsky to one of these issues.

Here are some reminders. In your paper, as with the first assignment, please outline and discuss some relevant ideas of the writer or writers and show how they apply to some aspect of the baseball issue that you choose. You may use the questions in the class exercise or questions like them to help you construct your essay. (Please refer to the guidelines on writing critical expository papers as well.)

Other information: Some reminders: In your opening paragraph, you will need to write a thesis that states whether the writer’s ideas mainly help us or do not help us to understand or explain a specific issue in baseball and precisely the ways in which the ideas do and do not help us to understand the issue. You will need to address directly the sociological ideas you are using, show that you understand them, and cite themspecifically. You will also need to supply baseball-related evidence for or against these ideas from the texts, including direct quotes, from the historical writings assigned in class (Rader, James, Tygiel, or Korr). These writings also require citations. In addition, you may also supply evidence from films and lecture.

As with the previous assignment, you should include a counterpoint. If you are arguing, for instance, that Gordon’s ideas mainly help us understand race relations in baseball, you should also indicate an instance where they do not. If you are arguing that Lipsky’s ideas about protest mainly do not explain labor relations in baseball, for instance, you should indicate an instance where they do.

Finally, in your conclusion please provide an overall assessment of any theoretical arguments you discuss. That is, return to your thesis regarding whether the ideas are mainly supported or not supported and speculate theoretically why you think the ideas mainly apply or do not apply, or apply only in some ways and not others.

Make sure to give your paper a title that foreshadows the content of the paper (for instance, not “Paper #2”). Please pay close attention to the guidelines regarding critical expository papers attached to the syllabus. It may help you to examine the questions in the group exercises to organize your paper.

Format:

• APA Format
• No plagiarism is accepted
• The attached document represents materials needed

*** The work will be checked for plagiarism through Turnitin by the professor. It is essential for everything to be free of plagiarism otherwise sanctions will be imposed***

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Thank you for your support