Tasks
Step 1: Read the entirety of ONE of the academic articles listed below. You can find these articles in the first ten modules of this class. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or can’t find the document of one of the readings.
Currie 1997
Pascoe 2005
Knous 2006
Winer et al. 2022
Rosenfeld 2009
Armstrong et al. 2014
Step 2: Under your heading and in the center of the paper, write out the ASA citation for this piece. I have provided the format with parts in blue text signaling they should be replaced with the specific information about your article (the final citation itself that you write should be in all black like the example provided beneath the formatting language). In the end, your citation should look like the all black text below and this is and an example based on this article Links to an external site.:
First author’s last name, First author’s first name (can middle name or initial), full name of second author (if there is one, then list other authors). Year Article Published. “Title of Article” Name of Journal Volume Number (Issue Number):Page Range.
Okuwobi, Oneya Fennell, Christopher W. Munn, and Korie Little Edwards. 2024. “Trading on Diverse Relationships: The Process of Racialized Social Commodification in Multiracial Congregations” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 10(1):16-30.
Step 3: In a standard essay format with paragraphs, write a 500-to-800-word response that answers the following questions about the academic article you read:
Paragraph #1:
What is their research question or what specifically were they looking to understand better?
What methodology did they use? Qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods? What specific data do they use to explore this question?
Paragraph #2:
What were three things you learned from this paper?
Paragraph #3:
Answer TWO of the following bullet points:
What is one specific thing that you think could have been done to improve this study? Why would that improve the study?
What do you think should be studied next related to this topic? Why do you think having this knowledge could be helpful?
How do you think the findings from this paper could be more broadly beneficial to society? What working professionals or law/public policy could benefit from knowing what you learned from this study? How could it benefit others, such working professionals or law/public policy?
Paragraph #4:
How would you explain this article in two or three sentences to someone who had never taken a sociology class?
Give this paper a new title.
