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SOCI 210 (McEntee): Assignment

Finding a Sociological Source

Sociological sources, what does that mean?

Dr. McEntee requires you to cite sociological sources. A sociological source needs to be a scholarly source and either A) written by someone with a degree in sociology/working in the field of sociology or B) published in a sociological journal. So how do we determine if it is sociological?

A) written by someone with a degree in sociology/working in the field of sociology

Many databases have an authors' affiliations section for each article's record. It may indicate either their degree or that they work in a university's sociology department. You may also consider departments like cultural anthropology, human geography, or others mentioned in Dr. McEntee's course materials to be sociological in nature.

If none of the information is available, you can take to a search engine like Google to see what kind of information you can dig up about an author.

 

B) published in a sociological journal

Any journal that has sociology (and no other discipline named) in the title or is published by the American Sociological Association (ASA) may be considered a sociological journal. Some big ones to note that do not have sociology in the title, but are indeed sociological journals, are Social Forces, Gender & Society, and Continuity & Change.

Individual Contributions to the Team Project

Remember for this assignment you are required to find the following as a minimum:

  • 2 new sociological sources (published in last 10 years)
  • 2 new semi-scholarly sources (published in last 2 years)
  • 2 new data sources (at least one of which is a map, graph, chart, or image for a slide in team Power Point presentation)

("new" meaning NOT used for previous course work)

Assignment

Remember the important criteria for this project:

  • Team's Dependent Variable must be GLOBAL, SOCIOLOGICAL, and RELATED TO (SOCIAL) SUSTAINABILITY
  • Each team member will contribute at least 6 sources to the team project, described above
  • Team Reference List - due Sunday, Nov. 24th
    • Include Team Dependent Variable AND Team Research Question at the top above reference list
    • Alphabetize one reference list for the entire team
    • Each source must be referenced correctly and labeled by TYPE (sociological, semi-scholarly, data) and by STUDENT who supplied it
  • PowerPoint Presentation AND Notes - due Saturday, Dec. 14th
  • Team Presentation - Final Exam Period