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An Overview of the Social
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See Also: All Course Resources |
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Examples of Research in the Social Sciences |
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Suicide, Durkheim, 1897 |
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Puritan
Boston & Quaker Philadelphia, 1979 |
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The Social
Causes of Juvenile Delinquency, circa 1900, 1984 |
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The Social
Causes of Teen Pregnancy, 1988 |
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An Introduction to Methods |
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Economic
control of science |
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Hawthorne
effect & placebos |
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The Development
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The Research
Journal |
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The Scientific
Method |
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The History
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The Qualities
of the Scientific Method |
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An Overview of Epistemology |
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Critique of
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Culture of science |
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Hume |
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Montesquieu
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Paradigms |
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Paradigms &
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Pitfalls |
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Politicization
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Role of the
social sciences in policy analysis |
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Science |
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Social Laws |
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Ways of Understanding |
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Weber on Values in
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An Overview of Hoaxes |
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Cold Fusion |
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The Piltdown Man |
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The Raelians: Human
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An Overview of Research Design |
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1. The Topic |
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See: In-Class Project: Brain Storming |
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See: Webbing & Brainstorming the Topic |
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2. Thesis
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See: Writing the Thesis |
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See: Refine the Thesis: Add Types of Analysis |
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3. Types
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4. Literature
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See: Scholastic Sources |
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Evaluation of the Literature Review |
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5. Research
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6. Conceptualization |
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Common Factors in Research Design |
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The Ideal Type |
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7. Research
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8. Operationalization |
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9. Data
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Consent & Confidentiality in Research |
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Moral, Ethical & Privacy Issues in Social Research |
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Sampling Issues should be contemplated throughout the Research Design Process,
but must be finalized during Operationalization of the Research Instrument |
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10. HIC
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11. Pilot
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12. Data
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13. Data
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14. Data
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See: The Summary of the Results/Data in the Research Paper |
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See: Analysis / Discussion Subsections in the Research Paper |
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15. Interpret
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16. The
Research Paper |
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17. HIC
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Overview of Writing for the Social Sciences |
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Brain
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Webbing
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Term Paper: Thesis statement or hypothesis |
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Writing
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Refine
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See: Types of Analysis |
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Refining
Your Writing: How to integrate feedback into the Thesis, Drafts,
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How to Outline |
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Outline
the Draft Proposal |
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Outline
the Final Proposal |
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Outline
Example on Wildland Firefighting |
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Writing
Objective Questions |
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Writing
Essay Questions |
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Writing for a Presentation |
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Overview of Writing a Research Paper |
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Research Paper Assessment Form |
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Not all of these requirements
are necessary for every assignment.
See your main syllabus for details
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Structure of the Research Paper:
See your main syllabus to determine
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Details of the Research Paper:
See the main syllabus |
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Length & membership of the
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1. Title Page |
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2. Table of
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3. Thesis statement
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See: Writing a Thesis |
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See: Types of Analysis |
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4. Introduction
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5. Body |
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5.1. Literature Review |
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You must use Scholastic Sources in the bibliography |
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See the Evaluation of the Literature Review |
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5.2. Reporting Methods in the Research Paper |
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See: Research Design |
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See: Types of Analysis |
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5.3. Summary of Results/Data |
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See: Research Design Sections on Data |
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5.4. Analysis / Discussion: Subsections of the Analysis may
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b. Research Instruments
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c. Types of Analysis |
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i. Socio-historical analysis |
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ii. Other Type of Analysis: Narrative, Descriptive, etc. |
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iii. Data Analysis if Primary Data Collection was conducted |
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a) Statistical Analysis, if utilized |
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b) Other type(s) of analysis, if utilized |
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iv. Expectations for the Future |
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v. Recommendations of Social Policy |
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6. Summary
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7. Appendices |
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Bibliography |
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You must use Scholastic Sources in the bibliography |
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Other requirements for the
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Mechanics, Organization, & Content Evaluation |
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Mechanics |
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Organization |
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Use smooth Transitions |
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Content |
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Team performance form ( applies only to team term papers ) |
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