Students will pick a topic in the text and research a sociological “scientific study” on that topic. Your job is to copy the study and critique the research methodology and overall study for its strengths and weaknesses. Paper length should be 3-5 pages
What is the academic source ( journal ) of your chosen research study ?
What is the purpose of the research (descriptive, explanatory, evaluative, other)?
Which sociological theories are implemented to explain the study?
What would the independent and dependent variables be?
Do you need to operationally define the variables?
What is the population the study is attempting to generalize ?
What type of sample was used and how was the sample chosen ?
Discuss what methods were used to carry out the research (survey, observation, participant observation, experiment and so on?
How would you go about revising this study with your own study
What are the strengths and weaknesses of this study ?