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Name: Date:SCENARIO: Your supervisor has approved your research question and plan for studying some aspect of diversity and/or collaboration in a community group. Now it is time to conduct your literature review and develop your hypothesis and research plan.ASSIGNMENT: In the first Touchstone, you developed a research question and prepared a preliminary bibliography for your literature review. You will now conduct your literature review, formulate your hypothesis and research plan, and develop a set of notecards that summarize your work.SOCI1010 Unit 3 Touchstone TemplateComplete the following template, including all parts, using complete sentences. NOTECARD 1, Introduction:Your introduction card should introduce your audience to the community group being studied. Remember, it should be a group in which membership is voluntary and recreational.In particular, be sure to answer the following questions:●What is the community group?●What are the attributes or characteristics of this community group? (e.g. What activitiesdoes this group do together? What element of the members' interests or identities brings them together? How is membership in the group defined, if at all?)●Is there anything else listeners should know about this group that is relevant for your research proposal?The community group I am currently studying is a local community center that aims to bring inpeople of all backgrounds and ethnicities to participate together. The center offers a variety of programs such as art classes, community building events and support groups. The building is based in the downtown area near St. Pete’s. Participants come from all walks of life and backgrounds from surrounding areas. This research will focus on how people from all backgrounds can come together and work as one.I will focus on how diversity can affect collaboration and how people from all cultural backgrounds can work together by helping the group succeed, make decisions and hopefully a difference.
NOTECARD 2, Research Question: ●State your research question.●How does cultural diversity influence decision making and working as a unit?NOTECARD 3, Literature Review: Describe and analyze your source. Include the bibliography information of author’s name(s); publisher and publication date; title of the source, in quotation marks; page numbers (if applicable); and source's location for web-based texts (URL).Describe the source and how it is relevant to your research proposal. Questions you could answer about your source include:●Who wrote this article? Do they have an academic affiliation? Are the researchers sociologists, or are they of a different discipline?●Where was this article published?●When was the research conducted?●What question were the researchers attempting to answer?●How does this question/topic relate to my question/topic?●What methods did they use to study their question?
●What conclusions did they draw from their results?●How do their conclusions relate to my research question, hypothesis, or research plan?●Bibliography information for your first source●Description and analysisAuthors: Robert Johnson / Jane SmithPublisher and Date: Community Development Journal 2020Title: ‘’Diversity and Collaboration in Community Settings.’’ Pg 105-112This article talks about how cultural diversity affects decision making within community organization groups. Having people from all cultural and religious backgrounds can bring creative ideas to benefit groups but may also cause challenges. This article elaborates on howeven with different point of views, it could be beneficial to community groups.●NOTECARD 4, Literature Review: Describe and analyze your source. Include the bibliography information of author’s name(s); publisher and publication date; title of the source, in quotation marks; page numbers (if applicable); and source's location for web-based texts (URL).Describe the source and how it is relevant to your research proposal. Questions you could answer about your source include:●Who wrote this article? Do they have an academic affiliation? Are the researchers sociologists, or are they of a different discipline?●Where was this article published?●When was the research conducted?●What question were the researchers attempting to answer?●How does this question/topic relate to my question/topic?●What methods did they use to study their question?
●What conclusions did they draw from their results?●How do their conclusions relate to my research question, hypothesis, or research plan?●Bibliography information for your second source●Description and analysisAuthor: Maria Lopez Journal of Social psychology 2018Title: ‘’The Impact of Cultural Differences on Teamwork’’This article talks about how people of different cultural backgrounds mold collaboration and teamwork. People from all backgrounds are encouraged to speak freely but without mediation misunderstandings and misconceptions can occur. This article gives strategies to improve community collaboration within diverse groups.NOTECARD 5, Literature Review:Describe and analyze your source. Include the bibliography information of author’s name(s); publisher and publication date; title of the source, in quotation marks; page numbers (if applicable); and source's location for web-based texts (URL).Describe the source and how it is relevant to your research proposal. Questions you could answer about your source include:●Who wrote this article? Do they have an academic affiliation? Are the researchers sociologists, or are they of a different discipline?●Where was this article published?●When was the research conducted?●What question were the researchers attempting to answer?●How does this question/topic relate to my question/topic?●What methods did they use to study their question?
●What conclusions did they draw from their results?●How do their conclusions relate to my research question, hypothesis, or research plan?●Bibliography information for your third source●Description and analysisAuthors: Sarah Thomas/ Michael GreenJournal of Community Psychology 2019Title: ‘’Working Together: How Diverse Groups Collaborate in Profit Organizations.’’This article talks about nonprofit organizations and how diversity can influence positive teamwork. Culture differences are capable of leading to innovation solutions in groups. They also talk about how to carefully monitor discussions to prevent conflict. This article will help me understand the difficulties working in diverse groups.NOTECARD 6, Literature Review: Describe and analyze your source. Include the bibliography information of author’s name(s); publisher and publication date; title of the source, in quotation marks; page numbers (if applicable); and source's location for web-based texts (URL).Describe the source and how it is relevant to your research proposal. Questions you could answer about your source include:●Who wrote this article? Do they have an academic affiliation? Are the researchers sociologists, or are they of a different discipline?●Where was this article published?●When was the research conducted?●What question were the researchers attempting to answer?●How does this question/topic relate to my question/topic?●What methods did they use to study their question?●What conclusions did they draw from their results?●How do their conclusions relate to my research question, hypothesis, or research plan?
●Bibliography information for your fourth source●Description and analysisAuthor: David MillerCultural Diversity and Decision-Making GroupsSocial Science Review 2021This article speaks on how multi-cultural backgrounds can lead to better decision making, learning to respect differences and opinions. This article outlines the impactful decisions diversity can bring to a group. This allows me to see the positive effects of decision making a diverse group can come up with.NOTECARD 7, Literature Review: Describe and analyze your source. Include the bibliography information of author’s name(s); publisher and publication date; title of the source, in quotation marks; page numbers (if applicable); and source's location for web-based texts (URL).Describe the source and how it is relevant to your research proposal. Questions you could answer about your source include:●Who wrote this article? Do they have an academic affiliation? Are the researchers sociologists, or are they of a different discipline?●Where was this article published?●When was the research conducted?●What question were the researchers attempting to answer?●How does this question/topic relate to my question/topic?●What methods did they use to study their question?●What conclusions did they draw from their results?●How do their conclusions relate to my research question, hypothesis, or research plan?Skip this card if you only have four sources.●Bibliography information for your fifth source
NOTECARD 8, LIterature Review: Describe and analyze your source. Include the bibliography information of author’s name(s); publisher and publication date; title of the source, in quotation marks; page numbers (if applicable); and source's location for web-based texts (URL).Describe the source and how it is relevant to your research proposal. Questions you could answer about your source include:●Who wrote this article? Do they have an academic affiliation? Are the researchers sociologists, or are they of a different discipline?●Where was this article published?●When was the research conducted?●What question were the researchers attempting to answer?●How does this question/topic relate to my question/topic?●What methods did they use to study their question?●What conclusions did they draw from their results?●How do their conclusions relate to my research question, hypothesis, or research plan?Skip this card if you only have four sources.●Bibliography information for your sixth source●Description and analysis
NOTECARD 9, Hypothesis: State your hypothesis. Remember, a formal hypothesis states the relationship between two variables—one is independent and one is dependent. It should be formatted as an If/Then statement, for instance:●If people eat chocolate (IV), then they will get pimples (DV).●State your hypothesisIf a community center promotes a diverse multi-cultural background and allows for positive decision making this can enhance a community as whole. While doing this can help, bring cultural awareness to members.NOTECARD 10, Operational definitions: Include and explain any operational definitions youdeveloped for your study. Remember, operational definitions identify important concepts related to the research. You may skip this card if you have none.●Explanation of operational definitions●
NOTECARD 11, Proposed Research Method: Introduce your proposed research method and explain how you propose to conduct your research. Some questions about your research method you might want to answer include:●Will you use qualitative or quantitative research or a combination?●How will you engage subjects or find your data?●What kinds of tools and assessments will be used to gather the data?●Description of your proposed research method●Explanation of how you propose to conduct your researchBy using Qualitative and Quantitative approaches. This will allows me to analyze, review and see the collaboration from all aspects. Completion ChecklistComplete?Have you revised your research question and sources based on any feedback you received on your first Touchstone?𐄂Have you read all of your sources and analyzed them for your literature review, and identified how they might be relevant to your research proposal?𐄂Have you included the basic bibliographic information for each source, including author(s), publisher and publication date, title, and URL?𐄂Have you filled out each relevant notecard fully and completely?𐄂
Have you provided all of the information about your chosen community group that your grader will need to know in order to understand your research proposal?𐄂Have you reviewed the grading rubric to understand how your Touchstone will be assessed?𐄂Have you proofread your work?𐄂