SMC Sociology as a Science Essay

You will have an essay to write of materials covered up to March 28th (week #6).  If your essay is more than 25% unoriginal materials (via Turnitin), you will have points deducted.

Sociology 4 is a course on what makes sociology a science.  Construct a coherent, cogent essay on “what makes sociology a science.”   In understanding how to do sociological research as a rigorous, methodological process, discuss one of the following dialectics and how dialectics can be applied in the sociological 6 to 10-step research process:

qualitative v. quantitative reasoning

Why is it important to operationalize and conceptualize your research variables as part of the research process?  How does doing a literature review, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and offering an analysis enrich the research process?  Please incorporate both the “Celebrity Gossip” (Elaine Lui) study and “Conversational Analysis” study (Elizabeth Stokoe) into your essay.

1) COMPOSITION (20%): grammar, syntax, spelling, organization

2) CONTENT (20%): information & data

3) CREATIVITY (20%): originality of approach and ideas
4) CRITICAL ANALYSIS (20%): sociological imagination
5) CITATION(20%): sources; references of each textbook, each film clip, online Canvas posts, class lectures/discussion, bibliography/works cited -page.