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The Process

The Process. The Core Sequence and Your Senior Thesis. Change Y our Mindset. English Paper Research. Senior Thesis. Borrows answers Presents what is known Cites other people’s data Consumes knowledge Cites existing articles Is an English paper. Creates answers Discovers the unknown

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The Process

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  1. The Process The Core Sequence and Your Senior Thesis

  2. Change Your Mindset English Paper Research Senior Thesis • Borrows answers • Presents what is known • Cites other people’s data • Consumes knowledge • Cites existing articles • Is an English paper • Creates answers • Discovers the unknown • Analyzes own data • Produces knowledge • Creates a new article • Is a source you cite in your English paper

  3. We Do Science

  4. Embrace the Process and the Core! • Sociological Explorations (Soc 230) • Wonder—become curious about something, pick potential topics • Review Literature—learn what others found out about your topics • Sociological Theory (Soc 300) • Review Literature—continue to learn what others have found out • Specify Question—state exactly what you are going to find out • Conceptualize—identify and define key concepts • Theorize—state how you believe concepts are related and explain why • Research Methods (Soc 340) • Review Literature—continue to learn what others have found out • Operationalize—specify your measures and develop the instruments and procedures you will use to obtain them • Hypothesize—state exactly how you expect your measures to be related • Observe—measure your concepts • Sociological Analysis (Soc 400) • Analyze—systematically compare how your measures are really related to how you predicted they would be related • Assess and Revise—reject or adjust your theory if predictions fail

  5. The Question

  6. Create a Starter Question NOW What are the causes of (B) ? (more often used) or What are the effects of (A) ? (less often used)

  7. Use Literature to Provoke Final Question • How does the literature answer your starter question? • What limitations (confusion, problems, debates, weaknesses, holes) exist in the literature? • Which questions could YOU ask that might solve, address, or clarify the issues in the literature? • Which question is your favorite? • Which question is doable?

  8. Potential Limitations to Address • Unresolved ongoing empirical debates • Unresolved ongoing theoretical debates • Certain seemingly relevant variables have been ignored • Less effective or non-existent theoretical explanations • Effect of time or social change has not been accounted for • Some aspect of the topic has rarely if ever been studied • Research on the topic is outdated • Not enough research has been done on the topic • Some populations or groups haven’t been examined • Any other weakness or flaw you can identify

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