TY - JOUR AU - Oware, Matthew PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - RESEARCH PAPER for Contemporary Society JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/research-paper-for-contemporary-society SP - AB - You will write a paper on a controversial topic that is of sociological importance. For example, you can write on specific issues within the broad category of education, health, crime, race, class, gender, family, and so forth. The goal of the paper is to critically analyze an issue from a sociological perspective, using theories, conceptual frameworks, statistics, or some other aspect of sociological insight in your assessment. You can investigate the pros and cons of a particular issue, say, abortion. Or you can take a side on an issue, for example, the role of prisons in our society. If you want, you can offer a solution to a problem, say, how to end poverty or homelessness. This paper should present your ideas and voice about some issue that motivates you and that generally interests you. I am not looking for a particular answer or what you may perceive as something I want to read. ER -