Length: Approximately 750-1000 words

Putting it all together: Food, social class, and everyday community life in the DMV

In the earlier steps of this Doing Sociology Assignment, you looked into what sociological research tells us about food culture and immigrant communities, then you turned to explore demographic and residential patterns across the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) metro area, and most recently, you visited and took field notes at an international grocery store or cultural site. In this final step, you will write a brief paper wrapping up the project.

*All notes and papers are attached below.

Your overall goal for this paper is to discuss what you learned about the DMV metro area from this entire assignment. You’ll want to think about how the different steps in this project have helped to answer the following questions:

• Who lives here in the DMV? Where do people live? (think about residential settlement patterns and the composition of your study communities (the zip-codes))
• What are some of the differences you observed during your site visit when compared to other experiences you’ve had in a supermarket or cultural venue? What similarities were there? What, if anything, do your observations say about diversity or social inequality in the DMV?
• What’s missing? What types of data or information would you need to form a fuller picture of your study communities?

In answering these questions, you’ll need to incorporate three sources of data:

1. The field notes you a wrote up following your observations at the international grocery store (Attached Below)
2. Demographic and residential data from the US Census Bureau about the neighborhood where the site you visited was located.
3. Sociological concepts and ideas that can help us to understand social and economic life for the various communities. that make up the DMV
4. Include a bibliography containing two academic sources (either peer-reviewed articles or a book) that could be useful resources for learning more about the communities of the greater DMV. Use ASA style, of course.
5. Length: Approximately 750-1000 wordsPutting it all together: Food, social class, and everyday community life in the DMVIn the earlier steps of this Doing Sociology Assignment, you looked into what sociological research tells us about food culture and immigrant communities, then you turned to explore demographic and residential patterns across the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) metro area, and most recently, you visited and took field notes at an international grocery store or cultural site. In this final step, you will write a brief paper wrapping up the project.Your overall goal for this paper is to discuss what you learned about the DMV metro area from this entire assignment. You’ll want to think about how the different steps in this project have helped to answer the following questions:
   • Who lives here in the DMV? Where do people live? (think about residential settlement patterns and the composition of your study communities (the zip-codes))
   • What are some of the differences you observed during your site visit when compared to other experiences you’ve had in a supermarket or cultural venue? What similarities were there? What, if anything, do your observations say about diversity or social inequality in the DMV?
   • What’s missing? What types of data or information would you need to form a fuller picture of your study communities?

   In answering these questions, you’ll need to incorporate three sources of data:

   1. The field notes you a wrote up following your observations at the international grocery store
   2. Demographic and residential data from the US Census Bureau about the neighborhood where the site you visited was located. (Store I visited was German Gourmet)
   3. Sociological concepts and ideas that can help us to understand social and economic life for the various communities. that make up the DMV
   4. Include a bibliography containing two academic sources (either peer-reviewed articles or a book) that could be useful resources for learning more about the communities of the greater DMV. Use ASA style, of course.