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Find a peer-reviewed sociology paper on any topic of interest, for example, on culture, stratification, sexual inequality, or the environment. The paper could be on a qualitative or quantitative study. Write a review of the paper in one or two pages, by including the following four points below. Use APA format. You can discuss the study’s theoretical framework, research methods, sampling, data collection, and/or findings. As an example, I reviewed a quantitative study on the media coverage of climate change.
1) Very briefly summarize the article.
Eg:
Kahn, Chelsea L. 2014. “The Climate of Newspaper Coverage: Communication of Climate Change Uncertainty in India.” Masters Thesis, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington.
Link to ArticleLinks to an external site.
The problem addressed in Kahn’s study relates to the contradiction between a consensus among scientists regarding climate change, on the one hand, and the lag in public understanding of this issue, on the other hand.
This study seeks to uncover how climate uncertainty is communicated in English-language Indian newspapers. The data Kahn used is published text. The study had two main findings: (i) that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is not the most widely used source of information about global climate change; and (ii) that the uncertainty language defined in the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) is not frequently used in newspapers.
2) Describe how the author(s) present their theory, research design, and/or findings (upload or take screenshots if you can, otherwise you must be as specific as possible).
Eg:
Kahn discusses her results of her three research questions separately and used a table to present findings in each area. For instance, in her question on frequency of IPCC references, to see if the frequency of the IPCC cited as a source changed over time, Kahn created a cross-tabulation table with IPCC citation and time of articles published pre and post AR5. Table 3 (see screenshot) shows that prior to the publication of the report, 10.9% of cited sources included the IPCC and 10.2% after the publication of the AR5.
Further, the author writes, “as ?2 test indicates, the relationship between the time of the newspaper article (pre vs. post AR5) and IPCC citation is not statistically significant (?2 = 0.029, p=0.864).
3) Describe what you like about the study and presentation of findings.
Eg:
The author described her findings in text, and she used a table to show the results of her frequency analysis. She used these results to show that she was wrong admits “the data do not support my hypothesis about the increased use of IPCC as a source of information after the publication of AR5.” 
4) Describe what you dislike about the study and presentation of findings.
Eg:
Kahn’s description of the frequency tests she used and results she got is brief and technical. She could explain what the symbols and decimal results in the findings (?2 = 0.029, p=0.864) mean. For example, what ‘?2’ and ‘p’ means and why the numbers ‘0.029 and ‘0.0864’ are low to the point of being insignificant.