THEORY ANALYSIS
Select two articles from scholarly refereed sociology journals.(ALREADY SELECTED, I AM FOCUSING MY REPORT ON THE STIGMA ATTACHED TO MENTAL ILLNESS).
The assignment absolutely must have two and only two references. You may use an article from a non-sociology journal only with my permission. An article used as a reference for the assignment must not be an article that is used or referred to in this course. Each article must be available as a pdf file using the library’s catalogue or databases. Each article must deal with the sociology of mental illness using an interpretive approach of the sort used in this course. You must offer theory directly about mental illness and you must discuss mental illness consistently throughout the assignment. You must not offer theory about social problems, deviance, the mass media, or any other area of sociology. Each article must make an original contribution to sociological theory and must not be a review. Articles must not use quantitative or statistical methods. You must not indirectly refer to a third source by referring to something in the two references you are using. Remember that you are discussing original contribution to sociological theory. There is no need to refer to predecessors. Simply state what the original contribution to theory is and be specific.
Your assignment must have exactly three parts and these must be labeled as such. Each part is important. You are expected to:
Part 1: summarize the original contribution to theory presented in the first article; do not review the whole article and do not review any research; be specific about what is original,
Part 2: provide your critique of the original theory in the first article in general terms; do not critique any research; do not refer to the second article in any way in part 2; be specific as to what each element of your critique is, and
Part 3: provide theoretical improvements to the theory in the first article by summarizing the original contribution to theory in the second article; do not review the whole article and do not review any research; be specific as to what each improvement is; be specific as to how it deals with the critique.
Students will normally find the two articles by going to the library’s web page and using one of the database search procedures to find the articles. Each article must deal with the same aspect of mental illness that is being analyzed. It usually works better if you find both references at the same time. Another tactic is to find an article, not discussed in this course, written by one of the author’s referred to in this course. Another tactic is to go to specific journals, such as those listed in the readings, that deal with the sociology of crime and consider what has been published there. Another tactic is to look at the references in the articles on the reading list for this course. If one tactic does not work for you, use another. The two articles must all be academic sociology published in scholarly peer-reviewed journals. You are not permitted to use articles from a magazine or newspaper and you cannot use dissertations.
You are not permitted to quote or paraphrase any words from the articles or any source that you are using. If you do so, you will lose marks. All of the words must be your words and not words from any other source. When you discuss an idea from an article, in your own words, you need to cite the page of the article that develops the idea.
Use an in-line parenthetical format to refer to references in the assignment, such as (Goode 2008:533). As you summarize an article, you need to provide the page numbers for the ideas that you use. Provide references at the end of the assignment using the format found for the readings in this course outline. Do not use footnotes. Do not use endnotes. If your references are incomplete or missing, you will lose marks.
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