RESEARCH PROPOSAL ASSIGNMENT

RESEARCH PROPOSAL ASSIGNMENT

DUE: 12/03/2018 5PM

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For this assignment, you will draw on your lessons from the topic development and data collection you did in the course to write a 10-13 page (double-spaced) proposal outlining details that you propose for a 4-month study. In this proposal, you will be expected to include the following:

I. Introduction and research question: Offer a brief context for your topic. This can include some interesting current event that is connected to your topic, relevant brief historical details, and/or the setting up of the broader theoretical, political or social issues or conversation your question is attempting to address. This introduction should then clearly lead into your research question. In other words, your articulation of your research question should naturally flow from the introductory context you set up. State the research question clearly. You must include citations for any claims you make!

II. Rationale/Significance: Explain to us the significance of your project. Some ways you can think about this question; you don’t have to answer all of these:

a. Why is your study original?

b. Why is it important to ask this question you are posing? What would it help us understand better?

c. Why is doing it qualitatively a valuable contribution?

d. Are the participants or site something other scholars haven’t considered but should? Why?

III. Literature Review: Provide a brief overview of the bodies of literature that will be informing your project. This is an outline of your literature review so remember, this should only be references to secondary and scholarly sources (e.g.—NOT newspapers). Cite some examples (5-7) of the scholarship you would use. Answer the following:

a. Which areas of scholarship (disciplines, sub-disciplines, schools of thought, areas of study, etc.) will you be drawing from?

b. Why are you drawing from these? How does it help inform your work?

c. What are the broader discussions, debates, conversations, etc. that these bodies of literature are having about your topic?

d. What will be your study’s contribution to this discussion? In other words, what do you think is missing in their scholarly conversation? What haven’t they tackled (or adequately tackled) yet?

IV. Methods: In this section, provide full details about your methodological approach to this study [JUSTIFY EVERYTHING]. Answer the following:

a. What will be the fieldsite for your study? A center? A government agency? A building? Some meeting? Explain briefly why this would be appropriate for your study.

b. Who will be the participants in your study? Whom will you observe? Whom will you interview? Provide number of individuals, positions, etc. Explain why you are making these decisions.

c. Which methods will you be using? Why? Provide details. How many hours/days will you spend doing participant-observation? How many semi-structured interviews? If relevant, what kind of material culture data do you hope to collect? From where? Why?

Add any other details that are relevant.

d. Identify your own positionality as it relates to the study

e. In a few sentences, explain what collecting preliminary data in the past month taught you. What worked? Is there anything you have proposed here that is different from the preliminary data collection you did? If so, explain.

V. Themes: In this final section, you will identify potential themes that emerged in your preliminary data collection.

a. Identify 2-3 themes that emerged from your coding and memo-writing.

b. Offer a 2-3 page synopsis for each theme. Each synopsis should integrate or include excerpts of data relevant to that theme.