Overview
Final Essay 40% of your total grade
You will be required to write an essay between 7 to 8 pages (you may go over 8 pages). You are required to use class sources (discussion posts, e-lectures, class reading links, class videos, etc.). You may use outside sources but only in addition to class sources.
Due: February 10th, 2024 before 11:59 pm
You may NOT submit the final paper late. There is no late option for the final. Please upload onto CANVAS. No email or CANVAS messaged essays will be accepted.
CANVAS does not calculate your grade. Please do not base your final course grade on CANVAS. The grade breakdown is on the syllabus. This assignment is worth 40% of your total course grad.
Grading Rubric for All Essays & Writing Assignments:
1) COMPOSITION (20%): grammar, syntax, spelling, organization
2) CONTENT (20%): information & data 3) CREATIVITY (20%): originality of approach and ideas 4) CRITICAL ANALYSIS (20%): sociological imagination 5) CITATION(20%): sources; references of each textbook, each film clip, online Canvas posts, class lectures/discussion, bibliography/works cited -page.
Select two sociological and/or social scientific studies that have already been conducted. You may use studies from the class readings. Compare and contrast these studies. What are the purposes of these studies? What were the hypotheses of these studies? How did the researchers define the problem. What variables were being examined? How did he/she/they conceptualize and operationalize his/her/their variables? What research method/methods were used to collect data? Did he/she/they use qualitative or quantitative methods? What were they? Were they effective? Were the research projects valid? reliable? What ethical questions were they grappling with, if any? What types of measures did they use? Did they utilize inductive and deductive reasoning? How did they analyze their data? Did they use primary or secondary sources (or both)? Were these studies empirically-based? Did they include human subjects? What were the main findings? How important were these findings? What societal implications did these studies have? How would you do your study differently if you were to select a similar topic? Or how would you build on the studies already conducted? What were the findings of these studies?
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https://open.lib.umn.edu/sociology/chapter/2-1-sociology-as-a-social-science/
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