Guideline Questions
1.What is your research question? Why did you choose this question?
2.What sociological terms, concepts or theories can you use to better understand your question (use at least 2 from course materials)? Based on your sociological analysis, come up with a hypothesis. What do you think you will find?
3. Find at least two examples of sociological research that address your question:
—In general, how did the researchers investigate the question?
— What did they find?
—What are the implications of their findings?
4.Revisit your hypothesis and compare it with your findings.
5. How does sociology help us better understand the social world we live in?
Other requirements
Focus most of your attention to addressing points 2-4. It is worth 90 points.
Outside Sources
Please use google scholar for sources.You can type in keywords from your topic/questions to search for relevant articles. The last option listed on the page is the “Journal Filter”. Be sure to click on “Sociology” to limit your search to Sociology journals. You must use peer-reviewed, academic journals. News sites (e.g., CNN, MSNBC), Wikipedia, and a simple google search are not appropriate.
Examples of acceptable topics
1.What are some of the negative affects of social media use among people?
2. What caused mass incarceration? What are the micro and macro level consequences of mass incarceration? (will need to do some outside research for mass incarceration)
3. What is the correlation between class and education?
4. How is gender constructed through the mass media? What impact do these constructions have on individuals and/or our society?
5. How has society/education/exercise/dating/etc. become McDonaldized? What are the micro and macro level consequences?
6. How does class/race/gender/sexual orientation stratification shape the lives of privileged and/or disadvantaged groups?
7. What are the causes and/or consequences of poverty?
8. How does cultural appropriation impact minority groups?
9. Does white privilege exist in our society today? If so, where do we see it?
10. How does environmental racism create health inequalities among racial groups?
Organization of you paper
1.Introduction
–In this section your will introduce your question and apply the course materials
–Guideline questions 1 & 2
2.Methodology
–Discuss your use of secondary data
–What are the benefits to this methodology? The drawbacks?
3.Research
–Present your outside research
–Guideline question 3
4.Conclusion
–Restate your question and how your research question addresses it
–Guideline questions 4 & 5
Your final paper will include the bolded headers above as well as an abstract (see APA format resource for more information).
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