Dr.
Menjívar
1.
Select a topic of social importance that you would like to research in this
class (you can use the same one you’ll use for your final paper).
2. Do
a literature review on it using library resources. For this assignment, you
will only be required to select three articles from academic journals
(internet material, opinion pieces, theoretical essays, and book reviews are
not acceptable—you need empirical articles for this assignment. You may
consult internet sources, but only to access academic journals that
publish empirical social research. For instance, you may use the internet to
access ASU’s library homepage, and even the articles you will include in your
assignment, but reports, letters, views, etc. that people post on their
internet website are not acceptable.
Examples of journals that you can use are the following (These are only
examples; there are many other journals in the library that you can use for
this assignment. However, the articles you use must be research (empirical)
articles and must come from academic sources:
American
Sociological Review
American
Journal of Sociology
American
Ethnologist
Annual
Review of Anthropology
Annual
Review of Sociology
Gender
& Society
Social
Forces
Law
and Anthropology
Law
and Inequality
Law
and Society Review
Social
Justice
Social
Science Quarterly
Violence
Against Women
The
assignment consists of the following:
1.
Read the articles
2.
Write a summary of each that is clear and concise. You only need to write one short
paragraph for each. The summaries should fit in two pages (only one
side). Be sure that your summary includes a) the objectives of the study, b)
the method(s) employed (how the data were collected, e.g., surveys, interviews,
analysis of texts), and c) the main findings of the study. The summaries
must be typed (double-spaced, one inch margins, font 12). Then, in a very
short paragraph write a conclusion about all three articles.
3.
Attach a copy of the article abstracts. If the articles have no abstracts,
include a copy of the full article.
*Don’t
forget that to undertake this assignment, you may obtain assistance from the
Writing Mentorship Program in the School of Justice Studies.