Study Design

This exercise is an opportunity to practice a particular sociological research method. It will provide an opportunity for evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of this method, think seriously about research ethics as well as research design. and other sociological research methods.

To Do¶

• Read the Yale Daily News article, “DKE internal review finds no hostile culture” and the study report. Note: This is an article that generally discusses sexual assault.
• Write a research proposal that evaluates the Yale DKE study and proposes an additional research project.
• As an additional resource, take a look at the “Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct” survey. This has some ideas for questions. If you are doing a survey, feel free to re-use their questions (although be sure to note this in your assignment).

Rubric¶

These are guidelines, but feel free to try new things and stretch your creativity for a high pass. In your submission text, please clearly state which set of requirements you are attempting to fulfill.

In order to receive a Pass or High Pass, you must complete all components of that grade category.]

High Pass Write a research reports that:

• Identifies two or more major problems in the Yale DKE study.
• Propose an alternative study on culture of sexual harassment within an organization.
• Describes what makes your study qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods and discusses the limitations of that methodology.
• Explains how the independent and dependent variables will be measured and discusses different alternate ways to operationalize the variables they are using
• In your report, you should include at least five chapter keywords. For each, be sure to bold the word and include a definition in your own words.
• Describes the population being studied and explains the choice made for the study of either a sample or a census of the population and predicts any difficulties of reaching that population for this study
• Describes your method (surveys, interviews, experiment, participant observation, content analysis) and provide your entire research instrument.
  • If survey: provide some of your survey question;
  • If interview: interview questions;
  • I experiment: describe the experiment you are going to conduct?
  • If observation: Where/when/how will you perform your observations
  • If content analysis: What content will you analyze?
• Identifies how each ethical principle was considered when designing your study and evaluates which one is of greatest concern
• Uses at least 600 words