Assignment Prompt & Instructions
– ## SOCI1010Touchstone1developedresearchplan.docx
**## SOCI1010Touchstone1developedresearchplan.docx**
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_SCENARIO: Imagine that you work for a nonprofit organization that is focused on increasing diversity in community groups in your area. Your supervisor asks you to develop a sociological study concerning topics of diversity and collaboration in a specific community group of your choice. Eventually you will prepare to share your research with colleagues._
_ASSIGNMENT: For this Touchstone, you will begin by formulating a question about diversity in a community group that you have access to. Then you will use the steps of the scientific method to prepare a research plan, including a bibliography for a literature review. As you learned, sociologists follow the scientific method so that their results are both scientifically valid and useful to the greater sociological community. A literature review allows researchers to learn from completed studies and to build upon their conclusions._
**SOCI1010 Unit 1 Touchstone Template**
_Complete the following template, including all parts, using complete sentences._
**STEP 1: Pick a Topic**
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| Write a paragraph (approximately 6-8 sentences) describing the community group you have chosen. Remember, it should be a group in which membership is voluntary and recreational.<br>In particular, be sure to answer the following questions:<br>· What is the community group?<br>· What are the attributes or characteristics of this community group? <br>_(e.g. What activities does this group do together? What element of the members' interests or identities brings them together? How is membership in the group defined, if at all?)_<br>· What kind of experience with or access to this community group do you have? |
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**STEP 2: Ask a Question**
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| Formulate a research question related to this group, and to topics related to diversity and/or collaboration. Write the question you have formulated for your study, and identify the independent and dependent variables.<br>Remember, an independent variable is a variable that causes or drives a change in outcome. A dependent variable is an effect, or a variable that is influenced by an independent variable. |
| Research question: <br>Independent variable:<br>Dependent variable: |
**STEP 3: Prepare a Bibliography**
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| List 4-6 articles, books, or other resources that relate to your question for your literature review. <br>Remember, attributes of good readings for your literature review include:<br>· They are academic, scholarly works about research findings or they are reliable journalistic reporting based on scientifically credible and reliable data.<br>· They should have been published in the last 10 years—unless they are a landmark work on the topic and provide important background or as a comparison. <br>· They look at different sides of the argument and a variety of perspectives.<br>· They do not have to be written by sociologists or published in sociology journals, but they should be academic and not popular works.<br>Use the simplified method to format sources for your bibliography. Include <br>**five key elements** for each source, with each element separated by a period:<br> <br>· Author’s name(s)<br>· Publisher and Publication date<br>· Title of the source, inside quotation marks<br>· Page numbers (if applicable)<br>· Source's location for web-based texts (URL) |
| _Example:_<br>1. <br>_Alireza Behtoui. Journal of Sociology, 2015. "Beyond social ties: The impact of social capital on labour market outcomes for young Swedish people." p. 711-724. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1440783315581217_ |
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**## SOCI1010Touchstone1developedresearchplan.docx**
Name:
Date:
_SCENARIO: Imagine that you work for a nonprofit organization that is focused on increasing diversity in community groups in your area. Your supervisor asks you to develop a sociological study concerning topics of diversity and collaboration in a specific community group of your choice. Eventually you will prepare to share your research with colleagues._
_ASSIGNMENT: For this Touchstone, you will begin by formulating a question about diversity in a community group that you have access to. Then you will use the steps of the scientific method to prepare a research plan, including a bibliography for a literature review. As you learned, sociologists follow the scientific method so that their results are both scientifically valid and useful to the greater sociological community. A literature review allows researchers to learn from completed studies and to build upon their conclusions._
**SOCI1010 Unit 1 Touchstone Template**
_Complete the following template, including all parts, using complete sentences._
**STEP 1: Pick a Topic**
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| Write a paragraph (approximately 6-8 sentences) describing the community group you have chosen. Remember, it should be a group in which membership is voluntary and recreational.<br>In particular, be sure to answer the following questions:<br>· What is the community group?<br>· What are the attributes or characteristics of this community group? <br>_(e.g. What activities does this group do together? What element of the members' interests or identities brings them together? How is membership in the group defined, if at all?)_<br>· What kind of experience with or access to this community group do you have? |
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**STEP 2: Ask a Question**
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| Formulate a research question related to this group, and to topics related to diversity and/or collaboration. Write the question you have formulated for your study, and identify the independent and dependent variables.<br>Remember, an independent variable is a variable that causes or drives a change in outcome. A dependent variable is an effect, or a variable that is influenced by an independent variable. |
| Research question: <br>Independent variable:<br>Dependent variable: |
**STEP 3: Prepare a Bibliography**
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| List 4-6 articles, books, or other resources that relate to your question for your literature review. <br>Remember, attributes of good readings for your literature review include:<br>· They are academic, scholarly works about research findings or they are reliable journalistic reporting based on scientifically credible and reliable data.<br>· They should have been published in the last 10 years—unless they are a landmark work on the topic and provide important background or as a comparison. <br>· They look at different sides of the argument and a variety of perspectives.<br>· They do not have to be written by sociologists or published in sociology journals, but they should be academic and not popular works.<br>Use the simplified method to format sources for your bibliography. Include <br>**five key elements** for each source, with each element separated by a period:<br> <br>· Author’s name(s)<br>· Publisher and Publication date<br>· Title of the source, inside quotation marks<br>· Page numbers (if applicable)<br>· Source's location for web-based texts (URL) |
| _Example:_<br>1. <br>_Alireza Behtoui. Journal of Sociology, 2015. "Beyond social ties: The impact of social capital on labour market outcomes for young Swedish people." p. 711-724. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1440783315581217_ |
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