Paper #1:

Your Social Systems – Personal Reflection Paper Rubric

500 points

Write a description of your social systems, including micro, mezzo, and macro systems.

Discuss how your systems influence your behavior and how you affect the functioning of the systems.

Your discussion should include an application of the theoretical concepts and related theories within chosen theoretical perspectives on human behavior. Review the exhibits in chapter 2 for examples (e.g.: systems perspective major concepts will be: boundary, interrelated parts, homeostasis, input, output, feedback, roles, interactions, relationships, structure, function, mutual influence, etc.).

Your paper should be 8-10 pages length. It should include at least two academic sources (the textbook, plus at least one additional scholarly source). APA FORMAT

Categories:

1. Content (350 points)

Theoretical background (micro, mezzo, macro) is explained (50 points)

Personal analysis of micro, mezzo, and macro systems is made, and includes the discussion of the impact of the system on personal behavior, as well as how the person affects the functioning of the systems. The multidimensional framework presented in the required readings is utilized (100 points).

Application of the theoretical concepts within at least three theoretical perspectives presented in the required readings is made. (150 points).

General reflection on your experience of self-analysis in your social systems is made, including reflection on their interrelatedness (50 points).

2. Formatting and Grammar (150 points)

APA formatting and citations (70 points)

Grammar and Spelling (40 points)

Organization and Length (40 points)

Example outline

Theoretical background

Micro

Mezzo

Macro

Self-analysis

My micro

– e.g.: age, sex, ethnicity, education, immigration status, gender identity, disability/ health condition (physical, psychological), origin family roots (ethnicity, structure, education), current family system (size, structure, role, etc.), any potentially life- altering events (death, accident, divorce, discrimination, abuse, addiction, etc.)

– chronology; linear time, chronological age

2.2. My mezzo

– e.g.: work (employees’ group/team), school, religion institution/church, support groups, military affiliation, center/organization affiliation, etc. Any groups’ participation, affiliation, association

– importance, engagement

– exchange (the impact of the system on the person’s behavior, and the person impact on the functioning of the system/group)

2.3. My macro

– e.g.: any state/national/global communities/programs/organizations, laws/regulations/legislation, social movements, economic systems and practices, politics, global trends, technology, geography/physical environment, culture. Anything on a state/national/global level that affect(ed) your life directly.

– historical time/era, cohort effect

Concepts’ applications within each theoretical perspective discussed (at least one perspective per level micro, mezzo, and macro)

Micro

Mezzo

Macro

* Each perspective’s concepts and related theories can be applied to some degree within each level of the analysis (micro, mezzo, and macro). Use the concepts and related theories that best fit/explain your experience/behavior in your social systems.

4. Solutions and Conclusions

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