Sociology Paper essay - 5-6 pages(many topics to choose frm)

• Project ID:

  632321

• Project Type:

  Fixed

• Budget:

  $30-$250 USD
  

Project Description:

Sociology Research Paper

must be turned in by start of tutorial in the week of March 15

to both Turnitin.com and ELM

In this assignment, you will harness many of the skills you have learned over the course of the

year. You are to produce a synthesis of sociological research on a topic you choose from

the list below. You are required to use at least 5 scholarly sociology sources, either articles in

academic journals or books. You are welcome encouraged to use more.

Objectives: for you to hone your research skills and social science writing skills, and for you to

learn more about an area of sociology. You will therefore be evaluated on the paper's

quality in terms of research, writing, and analysis.

First, you must select a topic to research. Pick one topic from column A and one topic from

column B, and study the work in that area (for example, race and health). You may choose

any combination except class and poverty, which gives you 15 options.

A B

Race Education

Class Globalization

Gender Inequality

Immigration Religion

There are five key steps to this assignment:

1. Find - locate sociology books and/or journal articles that deal with both of these

areas. These must be scholarly works of sociology. Each source should be by a

different author. Textbooks and encyclopedias are not acceptable.

2. Read - learn what sociology has to say about this intersection.

3. Analyze - understand the key themes and questions that have been drawn by your

readings.

4. Synthesize - understand how these works fit together. Do they present different

arguments? Do they build upon one another? Do they disagree with each other?

Identify 2-3 themes present in the sociology literature, and use these themes to craft

a picture of what sociology knows about this area. If you do not find any common

threads, you need to read more articles and select a different mix of sources.

5. Critical reflection - Consider the missing pieces that remain at the end of your

research. What sorts of further study would be useful to know more? What is your

overall evaluation of the sources you have analyzed?

The final draft of your paper should be 5-7 pages in length. it must be printed in 12-point font,

double-spaced with all margins between 1 and 1.25 inches. Include a title page with your

student number and your full name. Number pages. Assignments must be proofread and

error-free. All sources must be cited properly in ASA or APA citation format. Submit the

assignment to Turnitin.com according to the instructions posted on ELM. You must also submit

your assignment via the ELM course website.



How should this research paper be organized?

Let's say you've done steps 1, 2 and 3 above. You have identified appropriate sources and

read them. You have pulled out the key themes from each of the articles and books you've

read. Step 4 is the key step to organizing your paper. To synthesize means to draw out key

themes that the literature on this topic deals with. Your paper should be organized around

those themes. Note that this often means that you need to find more sources, since they

need to group together or speak to each other in a certain way that you can present in your

paper.

Since the goal of the research paper is to tell us what sociology has to say about the topic

you've chosen, your thesis statement will tell the reader exactly this, and it will call for the

paper to be organized accordingly. Below, I offer a fictional example to clarify our

expectations.

Topic: Age and Crime

Thesis Statement: The sociology literature on age and crime is concerned with three themes:

increased victimization of the elderly, juvenile delinquency among youth, and the effect of

rehabilitative treatments on people in different age groups. (Other sorts of thesis statements

might outline a debate in the field, or discuss how later works build on earlier works, for

example).

Organization of the research paper

Introduction

Build toward thesis statement and then a brief mention of what is to follow. "Below, I discuss

each of these three themes in the literature and then offer a critical reflection."

Victimization of the Elderly

This section, and the next two, should discuss the theme from your perspective, as well as

offer specific examples of what you read from particular articles.

Juvenile Delinquency

Same here.

Rehabilitative Treatments

Also same here.

Age and Crime in Sociology – Here is your critical reflection (step 5) section. Sum up the

literature you read briefly, and then offer some thoughts on what you found. Is there a

missing piece, some bias, or a lack of attention to something important? What might further

research reveal? and so on.

You can find formatting information on how to format subheads, as well as how to cite in

APA style and many other useful grammar and punctuation tips, in your Little, Brown writing

guide. Finally, you should know that I have laid out above a fairly standard approach to

writing a literature review for the social sciences. I hope that this exercise will give you some

writing skills that you can carry beyond this class.

Academic Honesty Note: Do not copy any of the above for your paper. Instead, use this as a

model, while writing your paper in your own words. Also, don't copy anything out of any of

the articles and books you have read, unless you put it into quotes and cite it appropriately.

Skills required:

Academic Writing, Articles, Report Writing, Research, Technical Writing

Additional Files:

sociology.pdf