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IStep 1/Background knowledge:
Go back through your notes on the “general knowledge” readings covered during the weeks 2, 3, and 4 modules.
As you review your annotated reference list, please select 2-3 readings that are most relevant to your chosen topic.
Within these readings, identify the particular points within each that are most relevant to your chosen topic.
Write 1-3 paragraphs in which you introduce your readers to the sociology of happiness (using these general knowledge readings) as it pertains to your topic.
Use in-text citations and add end-of-paper references following the guidelines covered in modules 2, 3, and 4. Most of you received feedback in week 2 or 3 regarding your in-text citations and reference list.
Please review your weeks 2, 3, and 4 submissions and any feedback I provided to you on these.
Use your own words (with use of quotes from the authors of the readings, as appropriate) to articulate the relevant insights from the general knowledge readings you select.
Step 2: Drawing on the work you did (and the feedback you received) in modules 5, 6, and 7, state your sociological research question. Clearly define both your independent and dependent variables.
Step 3: Write the literature review section of your paper. You should have already done this in question 8 of your module 7 quiz; please review feedback from this question.
Here is some guidance, however, for what you may still need to do depending on how you responded to question 8 initially:
IF the readings you initially selected were centrally relevant to your research question, then you may be able to copy and paste your work from question 8 of your module 7 quiz. What I mean by “centrally relevant” is that the sources you identified examined the relationship between the same (or similar) independent variable and dependent variables as you have identified in your research question.
IF you directly copied the abstract of the article, as I allowed you to do, you will need to use your own words and/or some paraphrasing or quotes from the original article you cited in this question.
IF the readings you initially selected were less centrally relevant to your research question, then you will need to find some sources that ARE more directly relevant. If this is the case, I encourage you to use ChatGPT similarly to how we did in module 5 to find the most relevant work that may have already been done by other scholars on your topic.
See further instructions in Step 3 under the “Preparing your final paper/project” module if you need to find more relevant sources.
Step 4: In this “research methods” section, I want you to present what you consider to be your best 10 survey questions. You should have 3-7 questions that focus on your independent variable and 3-7 questions that focus on your dependent variable. In other words, you must have a total of 10 questions, at least three questions that focus on your independent variable, and at least three that focus on your dependent variable.
You will list your 10 questions but should also write a paragraph or two in which you explain how your 10 survey questions will be used to answer your research question. In other words, explain how you will use the survey questions to “operationalize” your independent and dependent variables.
Step 5 In this second part of your “research methods” section, I want you to present your best 10 interview questions (reflecting feedback you received on your “preparing an interview protocol” and/or “revision of interview protocol” assignments). Write a paragraph in which you explain how the questions you ask in your interview will help you to answer your research question.
Step 6 Findings and analysis
Present the transcripts or summaries of your two interviews. Write a paragraph or two in which you analyze your interview transcripts/summaries, focusing on what you learned from them that helps you to answer your research question.
In sociology and other social sciences, we rarely if ever would rely on only two interviews to address a research question. So, in your analysis, keep in mind the possibility that responses of your two interviewees will be unlikely to be representative of any larger population. Based on the demographic questions you asked at the beginning of your interview, think about how people with different demographic characteristics might answer the same questions differently.
Step 7 For further investigation
Think about how the following demographic characteristics might affect the responses of survey participants.
1. Age
2. Occupation
3. Household income
4. Education level
5. Race/ethnicity
6. Religion
7. Marital/relationship status
8. Nationality
9. Gender
10. Geography (where they live)
Using your choice of at least two of these demographic characteristics, formulate two hypotheses about how these demographic characteristics might shape the responses of your survey participants.
Note: Although the advantage of conducting interviews is the ability to get much more in-depth responses than you could possibly get with closed-end surveys, the disadvantage is that it is very time consuming to conduct a sufficient number of in-depth interviews to be able to make generalizations regarding your research question. It is much easier to administer a survey to a lot of people and to a random sample of participants that reflect the diversity within the population that you are studying. Think about how you might use your survey, if you were to actually administer the survey to a large and representative sample of a population, to find out if your interview findings are generalizable to a larger population of people. (Please note that your survey, if you were to administer it, would include a set of demographic questions such as the ones I asked you to include when doing your interviews).
Step 8: Proofread your entire document, making sure that you have understood and fully addressed each of the prescribed steps. Add a reference list at the end of the document (if you have not already done so in completing steps 1 and 3) using appropriate APA format.
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