Conceptualization & Operationalization Exercise #1

Graded Assignment #1

Sociological Research Methods Chuck Brown, Professor

This assignment will help you pull together everything that you have learned up to this point and prepare you to complete assignment #2, a full research proposal. Use the form below to help you complete your assignment. You should turn in a retyped version of this form which includes the information that you add. Proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar are expected. You should email me your paper or turn it in during class. You may turn in the assignment earlier if you wish.

You should choose one of the research questions that you turned in to me and use it to complete the assignment.

Quantitative Research Question:

Quantitative Hypothesis:

Independent Variable: Variable Name: ______

Categories: ______

Dependent Variable: Variable Name: ______

Categories: ______

Conceptual Definition for your Independent variable:

Operationalization (Indicators) of your Independent variable:

Conceptual Definition for your Dependent variable: Operationalization (Indicators) of your Dependent variable:

Research method used to collect your data (e.g. survey)

Sample Used

 Type of sample you will use (e.g. simple random sample, stratified random sample, etc.)  What is your population? (e.g. Albright College, the city of Reading, the state of PA, etc.?)  What is your sampling frame (e.g. List of students from Albright College)  How many elements will you sample from your sampling frame?  How, specifically, will you select your sample (in other words, how will you go about drawing your sample?) 10 academic sources to use for quantitative literature review (list according to ASA style)

10. ASA STYLE GUIDE

FOR A JOURNAL ARTICLE: Gerson, Walter M. & Saunder H. Lund. 1967. "Playboy Magazine: Sophisticated Smut or Social Revolution?" Journal of Popular Culture. 1(3): 218-227.

FOR A MAGAZINE ARTICLE: McGrath, Peter. 1997. "The Web: Infotopia or Marketplace?" Newsweek. January 27, Pp. 82- 84.

FOR A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: Antonucci, Mike. 1997. "Conspiracy Theorists Tackle Diana's Death." San Jose Mercury News, September 3, P. A12.

FOR A BOOK WITH A SINGLE AUTHOR: Bell, Daniel. 1976. The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. New York: Basic Books.

FOR A BOOK WITH MULTIPLE AUTHORS: Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. 1992. The Churching of America. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

FOR CHAPTERS TAKEN FROM A BOOK: Gans, Herbert. 1974. "The Critique of Mass Culture." Pp. 17-64 in Popular Culture and High Culture. New York: Basic Books.

FOR EDITED BOOKS: Hubbard, Rita C. 1992. "Magic and Transformation: Relationships in Popular Romance Novels, 1950-1980's" Pp. 476-488 in Popular Culture: An Introductory Text, edited by Jack Nachbar and Kevin Lause. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University

Popular Press.

FOR A SOURCE FROM THE INTERNET: Johnson, James. 1997. "Babylon 5 and X-Files Tap Into Conspiracy Fears: What's Next, A Full Blown Revolution?." September 2, Http://www.molari/connect.com.

FOR A CD, CASSETTE, LP, OR EIGHT TRACK: The Seventy Sevens. 1995. "Rocks in Your Head." Tom Tom Blues. Fullerton, CA: Brainstorm Artists International, BRD4021.

FOR A MOVIE, VHS, BETA, OR LASERDISC: Meyer, Nicholas & Denny Martin Flinn. 1991. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Hollywood, CA: Paramount Pictures.

FOR A TELEVISION PROGRAM: Straczynski, J. Michael. 1997. "End Game." Babylon 5. Hollywood, CA: Babylonian Productions.

FOR AN INTERVIEW: Jones, Mike. 1997. Personal Interview, July 19.