Paper 2 Assignment Sociological Research on Family

100 points

Purpose:

For this Paper assignment you will apply your growing knowledge of sociological research in the area of family and extend your experience in finding and interpreting research articles.

Knowledge: After doing this assignment you will:

· Understand the components and expectations of research article in sociology.

· Recognize the ways in sociological research extends, supports, or refutes earlier findings.

Skills: After doing this assignment you will be able to:

· Decipher a piece of sociological research.

· Integrate ideas and support from sociological works.

· Use academic conventions to write, argue, and cite.

Tasks:

· Complete Paper 2 Prerequisite first.

· Find a sociological research article in Sociological Abstracts that meets the following conditions:

· Based on a sociology of family topic that is loosely related to the one you addressed in Paper 1. (You may need to be creative in determining a topic that can somehow be connected and it does not need to be on a topic that matches precisely.)

· Peer-reviewed

· Published from 2000

· Written in English

· Based on data that used a common method of social data collection: survey, interviews, field work observations, content analysis, etc. (No essays, review articles, theoretical discussions, dissertations.)

· For assistance, view the video on how to find a sociological research article in the Sociological Abstracts database at UW Libraries.

· Once you’ve found an article, submit it to the Paper 2 Prerequisite. You will receive a comment regarding its approval or with further instructions.

READ THIS WELL

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· Once approved, read the article with the help of this piece:


Anatomy of a Scholarly Article


, retrieved from https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/scholarly-articles/

· Write an 800+ word double-spaced 12 point font paper, labeled with a title an your name and date (separate title page not necessary). In this paper, you will:

· Present briefly the research topic, design, analysis and findings detailed by the author(s) of your selected article

· Formulate an argument about how your selected article fits within, departs from, or extends the curriculum of the course.

· Use Cherlin and other course materials to help you contextualize the topic within the broader scope of sociology of family. At minimum, you must relate Cherlin, and 2 additional course materials in your paper, one being another assigned scholarly article from the course.

· Create in-text citations any time you use ideas, words, findings from other sources, using APA citation style, like this: (Qian and Lichter 2011). If you use a particularly well-stated quote, you must use quotation marks and a parenthetical citation with a page number, like this: (Cherlin 2013, p. 428). Limit your use of direct quotes to two.

· Include a Reference section or page at the end of your paper that has full bibliographic entries in APA style that correspond to the-text citations in your paper.

· Check the paper against the grading rubric in Canvas.

· Label the paper’s file as SOC352P2YourlastnameFirstinitial and save as a .docx or similar file (pdf’s will not be accepted).

· Submit to Paper 2 Assignment in Canvas before you move on to Lesson 9.

To submit your assignment:

· Use the +Submit Assignment link located in the top right corner.

· Click the Choose File button to find and select the saved document file.

· Click the Submit Assignment button to turn in your assignment.

Criteria for Success:

You must have approval for your article choice via the Paper 2 prerequisite quiz. For the paper itself, see the handout on How to read a research article and the Paper 2 grading rubric on Canvas.

See the attached rubric for criteria for success. The explanations for the ratings on the rubric are the following:

· Sophisticated: The criteria have been met with an outstanding, creative, sophisticated argument, presentation, skill, understanding.

· Developed: The criteria have been met with a fine, developed argument, presentation, skill, understanding. There is room for more sophistication.

· Emerging: The criteria have been met with an emerging or minimal argument, presentation, skill, understanding. There is room to indicate a more developed level.

· Absent or inadequate: The criteria have not been met adequately or at all.