SCENARIO: Imagine that you work for a nonprofit organization that is focused on increasing diversity in community groups in your area. Your supervisor asks you to develop a sociological study concerning topics of diversity and collaboration in a specific community group of your choice. Eventually you will prepare to share your research with colleagues.
ASSIGNMENT: For this Touchstone, you will begin by formulating a question about diversity in a community group that you have access to.
Then you will use the steps of the scientific method to prepare a research plan, including a bibliography for a literature review.
As you learned, sociologists follow the scientific method so that their results are both scientifically valid and useful to the greater sociological community.
literature review allows researchers to learn from completed studies and to build upon their conclusions.
