Qualitative methods

In this paper you will review Part 1 by applying your learning to a social issue of personal interest. Please make

sure to select a social issue (one involving groups of people/relating to society) and to address that same social

issue throughout the paper.

Please follow the paragraph structure outlined below, and please address every outlined question. Each paragraph

should reflect approximately one page of writing, with the entire paper constituting a streamlined narrative essay.

Paragraph 1: Sociological Thinking (see Writing Assignment #1, Questions 1-2)

What does it mean to study a topic sociologically?

o What is the scientific approach to sociological study? What is the interpretive approach?

If you were to study a social issue sociologically, what would you choose to study?

o Would you study that social issue from the perspective of a scientific or an interpretive