The paper format is as follows: Critically discuss 2 scholarly sociology articles on the inequality you choose for your topic. The paper should be organized as follows:
1) how does each article construct the social problem?
Is it defined as a problem based on a. social norms and values, b. the suffering it causes for individuals or groups, or c. both?
Note any overlapping or intersecting types of social problems or inequalities in how the authors frame your problem of interest (for example, race and environmental, gender and class, etc.)
2) what do the authors discuss as the social cause(s) or source(s) of the problem?
What did the author(s) find that previous research had determined?
How was each study different than what had been done before?
What concepts or theories from our texts were used in the articles?
How does your social problem of focus connect to others we have discussed within your authors’ analysis?
Are the two articles you have selected similar in their explanation of social causes or different?
3) what were the author(s) research questions or hypotheses? What specific questions/predictions did they want answered/tested?
What were the author(s) research methods?
What sources of data did they use? (e.g. participant observation, existing statistics, etc)
Was their analysis quantitative, qualitative or both? (not this is not about the type of data, but the analysis itself)
Sociology is a diverse discipline and scholarly papers range from very narrow empirical testing or description to presentation of more general theorizing. You are not required to be able fully explain or evaluate the methods used in empirical work, such as statistical or content analysis, rather to identify the relevant categories of method and the conclusions about the problem in question that the authors’ draw from their findings. Therefor discussion of methods should be brief and concise.
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