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Book – The Real World, 4th Edition
Relevance Box Options

Throughout your textbook there are a series of “relevance boxes” labeled In Relationships, In the Future, and On the Job that highlight specific issues and concepts of concern to sociologists. Your task in this Research & Writing assignment is to revise one such box with the purpose of improving the way that the box communicates information based on sociological research to the students reading this introductory textbook.

Because some of the relevance boxes in your text are better suited to this assignment than others please select one from the following list to revise for this writing assignment.

ON THE JOB: The Wages of Emotion Work (p. 120)
Research Article = Grandey (2003)

IN RELATIONSHIPS: Can We Have a Relationship with God? (p.311)
Research Article = Sharp (2010)

IN RELATIONSHIPS: With Virtual Colleagues (p.330)
Research Article = Poster (2002)

IN RELATIONSHIPS: Fan-Celebrity Relations (pp.392-393)
Research Article = Ferris (2001)

IN THE FUTURE: Solving the Mystery of Autism (p.409)
Research Article = Liu, King and Bearman (2011)

IN RELATIONSHIPS: Encounters with Strangers (p.449)
Research Article = Wood et al. (2007)

IN RELATIONSHIPS: Social Media and #OccupyWallStreet (p.482)
Research Article = Lubin (2012) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5rb320n3

Step 1: Review a Relevance Box from the textbook

Carefully and critically read the existing box you have chosen for your assignment. Write a one to two-page review of the box addressing the following questions:

What key points are made?
What is the purpose of including this box in your textbook?
What source materials are referred to in the box?
Please look up any books, articles, or web sites cited in the box in the textbook’s References and list them at the end of your review.
What do you like most and least about the existing content and format of the box?