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Project:
Types
of Analysis Details
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Your
Mission, should you decide to accept it:
Answer the questions found below as a group.
Hand in one answer with everyone's name
- First & last & in alphabetical order by last
name
- Include only
members who are present
Indicate the date: _____________________ |
Indicate the name of the class:
Indicate the name of the Project:
Be thorough; write good answers
Use your time wisely.
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Name
of the Project: Types of
Analysis Details
Below you will find the Types of Analyses (TOA).
Answer the questions / fill in some details for your TOA.
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1.
Narrative Analysis
a. Do you have a topic sentence that explains what
the story is & why you are telling this story?
b. What relevant & descriptive details do you
have?
c. Is your story in sequence?
d. While the thesis is often implied in the story,
are you making clear some articulated point that ties the story to the
thesis? What is it?
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2.
Descriptive Analysis
a. Do you have a topic sentence that tells the
reader what you will be describing, & why, ie how it ties to the thesis?
b. Do you use objective or subjective language
to describe some object (a person, place or thing; it may be a "social
object" such as discrimination)?
c. Are you giving the reader some dominant impression
(the thesis) of the thing being described?
d. Have you identified your vantage point (the
perspective from which you are viewing the object)?
e. What would you call your vantage point?
Is it from the pt of view of a participant? An outsider? Etc.
f. Is your description micro or macro oriented?
g. Do you change the angle by starting w/ a general
description, moving towards a specific one? Or vice versa?
h. Do you conclude by making clear some articulated
point that ties the description to the thesis? What is it?
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3.
Socio Historical Analysis
a. Do you have a topic sentence that tells the
reader what you will be examining from a socio hist pt of view, & why,
ie how it ties to the thesis?
b. Is it clear what historical periods you are
examining? What are they?
c. Are you examining the historical periods in
sequence?
d. Is it, or is it not clear that some clear development
/ evolution has occurred? What is it? What is the basis of
it, ie more freedom, more tech, more econ dev, etc?
e. Are you looking at history through some sociological
concepts, theories, etc?
f. Do you conclude by making clear some articulated
point that ties the socio hist analysis to the thesis? What is it?
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4.
Comparative Analysis
a. Do you have a topic sentence that tells the
reader what you will be comparing, & why, ie how it contribute to the
thesis?
b. Are you examining something that is similar
or dissimilar to something else?
c. What is the basis of the comparison(s) that
you are making? That is, is it demographics (race, gender, income,
etc), conceptual (alienation, culture, integration, etc)?
d. Are you doing a subject by subject comparison
which treats each of the subjects you are comparing separately? What
are the subjects?
e. Do you conclude by making clear some articulated
point that ties the comparisons to the thesis? What is it?
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5.
SWOT Analysis
a. Do you have a topic sentence that tells the
reader what you will be SWOTing, & why, ie how it contribute to the
thesis?
b. Does SWOT work for your topic? EG
a SWOT of crime, suicide, bullying, etc might not be appropriate.
c. What are some particular strengths of the topic?
d. What are some particular weaknesses of the topic?
e. What are some particular opportunities for the
topic?
f. What are some particular threats to the topic?
g. Do you conclude by making clear some articulated
point that ties the SWOT to the thesis? What is it?
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6.
Cause & Effect Analysis
a. Do you have a topic sentence that tells the
reader what cause & effect correlation you are making, & why, ie
how it contribute to the thesis?
b. Is your focus on social causes and social effects?
c. Do you examine any non-social (e.g. physical,
biological, psychological, etc.) cause & effect relationships?
Do you tie them to the social causes & effects?
d. Do you ask: How does this particular cause
& effect relationship really work? ( as to opposed to how many
believe it works )
e. Are you examining / proposing a linear cause
& effect relationship or a network of causes & effects?
f. Do you conclude by making clear some articulated
point that ties the cause & effect correlation to the thesis?
What is it?
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7.
Statistical Analysis
a. Do you have a topic sentence that tells the
reader what stats you will be examining, & why, ie how they contribute
to the thesis?
b. Which statistical concepts are you using?
c. Are you using the statistical analysis to demonstrate
a cause & effect relationship (i.e. a correlation), or a comparison,
or what? And how many of each?
d. Do you conclude by making clear some articulated
point that ties the stats analysis to the thesis? What is it?
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8.
Critique
a. Do you have a topic sentence that tells the
reader what you will be critiquing, & why, ie how it contributes to
the thesis?
b. Are you assessing the ideas of another, a concept,
a practice, a social phenomenon, or what?
c. Are you addressing he strengths & weakness
& taking a position on the balance of the two?
d. Do you conclude by making clear some articulated
point that ties the critique to your thesis? What is it?
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9.
Sociological Analysis
a. Do you have a topic sentence that tells the
reader what theory you will be using to analyze your topic, & why,
ie how it contributes to the thesis?
b. What theory(ies), concepts, social processes,
paradigms, etc will you primarily be applying?
c. Is your analysis primarily sociological?
If it has a biological, psychological, economic, business, etc basis, are
you applying this in a sociological manner?
d. What is your level of analysis: individual,
org, instit, cultural, societal, other?
e. Do you conclude by making clear some articulated
point that ties the theory you will be using to analyze your topic to the
thesis? What is it?
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