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Theoretical Framework and Findings Worksheet

This document provides guidelines for creating an ethnographic photo essay, including introducing the topic and research questions, describing the methodology and findings, and concluding with applying a sociological framework. The introduction should state the topic, how it was chosen, the main research question and sub-questions, and methodology. The findings section should present one umbrella theme and three sub-themes with supporting photos, define and provide evidence for each theme. The conclusion should apply a sociological perspective and discuss future research questions. Helpful class concepts are also listed.

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Theoretical Framework and Findings Worksheet

This document provides guidelines for creating an ethnographic photo essay, including introducing the topic and research questions, describing the methodology and findings, and concluding with applying a sociological framework. The introduction should state the topic, how it was chosen, the main research question and sub-questions, and methodology. The findings section should present one umbrella theme and three sub-themes with supporting photos, define and provide evidence for each theme. The conclusion should apply a sociological perspective and discuss future research questions. Helpful class concepts are also listed.

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Theoretical framework and findings worksheet

Guidelines for crea/ng your ethnographic photo essay


Examples are available under assignments “ethnographic photo essay” on canvas.

The sooner you upload, the sooner I can check your work. If you upload at midnight on Tuesday I
probably won’t be able to look over your work.

Introduc/on

- What is your topic?


- How did you decide to choose this topic?
- What is your main research ques/on?
- What are your sub-ques/ons?
- Methodology (how did you answer these ques/ons? How did you get your informa/on?
Where did you observe? Who did you interview? How many? (general descrip/on,
remember to give a pseudonym to any individual that you discuss in your project, NO
REAL NAMES)
- Choose one picture to introduce your topic (Instagram capture, picture of school or
loca/on where you observed your subculture)

Findings

- Choose 1 umbrella theme and 3 sub-themes.


- Choose a photo to represent your umbrella theme and each sub-theme.
- Define your umbrella theme (describe the paXern that you see that you have grouped
under this theme – what do you mean by your theme “boundary making” for example?)
o How does your umbrella theme help you answer your main question?
- Then define each sub-theme. (Describe the paXern that you see that you have grouped
under this theme)
o What sociological concepts from class help you understand this subtheme? (see
list on back)
o How does your umbrella theme help you answer your main question?
o Give evidence from your data (a quote from interview or something you
observed) to support your argument.

Conclusion

What sociological framework can you apply to understand your data?


- Symbolic interac/onism, Structural func/onalism, Conflict theory?
- What are future ques/ons about your research that would be interes/ng to pursue?
Helpful Class Concepts – check out the PowerPoints under the following modules

- Week 2 (Sociological imagina/on)


- Week 3 (Sociological Paradigms – Structural Func/onalism, Conflict Theory and Symbolic-
Interac/onism + deviance)
- Week 7 (Marx (false consciousness, aliena/on), Durkheim (mechanical/organic solidarity,
anomie) and Weber (disenchantment, Iron cage, social ac/on theory)
- Week 11(culture – material/non-material, values, norms (folkways, mores), beliefs,
symbols, subcultures, countercultures, mainstream culture)
- Week 12 (Symbolic boundaries/group boundaries and Socializa/on, primary socializa/on,
secondary socializa/on, cultural capital, Gender (three sociological perspec/ves on
Gender)
- Week 13 (Gender (three sociological perspec/ves on gender) and doing gender,
Intersec/onality, matrix of domina/on
- Week 14 (race – racial forma/on theory, cri/cal race theory, double-consciousness,

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