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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="12bf0f21egerdp.jpg"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="12c203c0.jpg" border=0 width="32" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#66334C" FACE="Arial" ><B>SOCIOLOGY 212: RESEARCH METHODS</B></FONT><B>      |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SOCIOLOGY 212: RESEARCH METHODS"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> back to<B>  </B><A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Research Project"><U><B>Research Project</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="12af2f02egerdp.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grading Grid"><U>Grading Grid</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="content___structure.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Research Project Handout"><U>Research Project Handout</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id10.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hypothesis Guidelines"><U>Hypothesis Guidelines</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reference/Citation Guidelines"><U>Reference/Citation Guidelines</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Literature Review (more examples)"><U>Literature Review (more examples)</U></A></div> <div> <B>Methods (more examples)</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Results (more examples)"><U>Results (more examples)</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="12df0f03.jpg"> <div> <B>Methods</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Example 1 of various sections under Methodology</B></div> <div> <B>(the final draft would be double-spaced)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="744" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 1077 WIDTH="732"><div> <B>Methods</B></div> <bR> <div> The purpose of this study was to explore attitudes about the level of involvement or the role of women in the church.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Concepts and Variables</B></div> <bR> <div> “Role” as presented in the research question refers to what, if anything, women should be permitted to do in regards to involvement in the church. For example, one role could be the role of pastor, priest, rabbi or other clergy member who leads or plays a big part in the worship service. Other possible roles include Sunday school teacher, member of the choir or secretary.</div> <bR> <div> The independent variable in this study was the type of church that an individual attends. “Type” includes the denomination (Catholic, Lutheran Methodist, Jewish, non denominational etc.) and how liberal or conservative the individual believed his or her church to be. The dependent variable in this study was the attitude of an individual towards the role of women in the church.</div> <bR> <div> The dependent and independent variables were measured through the use of a questionnaire administered to ten individuals of varying backgrounds. The questionnaire was used to assess that individual's attitude towards the role of women in the church lease see attached).</div> <bR> <div> The first part of the questionnaire included questions designed to assess the demographics of the population being surveyed. These demographic questions included: gender, total household income for specified year, highest level of education completed and age. Respondents were also asked whether or not they attended church and if the respondent answered “yes”, then he/she was asked to provide the name of the church he/she attends.</div> <bR> <div> The respondents were then asked how conservative or liberal they viewed their church to be.  Respondents were given a 5 point Likert type scale with 1 being Very Conservative and 5 being Very Liberal and asked to circle the response that best fit their church…</div> <bR> <div> For purposes of this research project, a low intensity indicator of an individual's attitude about the role of women in the church was whether or not that individual thought women should be allowed to teach Sunday school. A medium intensity indicator was whether or not an individual thought women should be allowed to serve communion. A high intensity indicator was whether or not an individual thought women should be allowed to be pastors/priests/rabbis etc.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Hypothesis</B></div> <bR> <div> The research hypothesis was that members of more traditional churches would be less likely to hold the opinion that women should have active roles in every part of the church than anyone else surveyed.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Methodology</B></div> <bR> <div> For purposes of this research project, the respondents were chosen according to</div> <div> accessibility.</div> <bR> <div> Ideally, the respondents would have been chosen based on a stratified systematic sample. The sample would have been stratified on gender and type of religion, meaning religious denomination, and the sample would have included an equal number of male and female respondents. Researchers would have to obtain population information about El Paso County or Colorado Springs depending on the exact area being studied. The population for the sample would then need to be chosen based on the religious make-up of the area being studied. For example, if the population of Colorado Springs is 8% Muslim, then the population used in the survey would ideally be 8% Muslim in order to get a fair representative sample of the actual population of Colorado Springs. In sum, the sample would have been chosen according to population numbers reflective of population by type of religion.</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Example 2 of various sections under Methodology</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="749" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 949 WIDTH="737"><div> <B>Methodology</B></div> <bR> <div> <I>Questionnaire</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>     </I>The research discussed below uses the data from the UCCS Youth Life Style Survey.  This survey was distributed to school age children between grades six and twelfth in all participating school districts in the Pikes Peak area of Colorado.  Administrators received an instruction packet prior to the distribution, and the anonymous survey was administered by classroom teachers during a regularly scheduled class in January, 1996.  Parents were notified of the survey prior to distribution, and the survey instrument was available for inspection at the school.  Students were advised that their participation was completely voluntary and that their answers would remain strictly anonymous.  Furthermore, students were encouraged to refuse to answer any questions which made them uncomfortable or which they believed their parents would reject.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Respondents</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>     </I>  Table 1 represents the demographic breakdown from the population of 17,467 youths within the </div> <div> school district.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Table 1</B></div> <div> <B>Demographics</B></div> <div> <B>   </B></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="601" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 318 ><NOBR><bR> <div> <B><U>Sex</U></B>                                           <B><U>Percent</U></B></div> <div> Male                                           50.0</div> <div> Female                                       50.0</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Age</U></B></div> <div> 11 years                                        5.4                       </div> <div> 12 years                                      14.2</div> <div> 13 years                                      17.5</div> <div> 14 years                                      16.5</div> <div> 15 years                                      16.4</div> <div> 16 years                                      14.1</div> <div> 17 years                                      10.1</div> <div> 18 years                                        4.9</div> <div> 19 and older                                  1.1</div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><bR> <div> <B><U>Grade </U></B><B>                                   </B><B><U>Percent</U></B></div> <div> 6<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >th</FONT> grade                                     11.9</div> <div> 7<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >th</FONT> grade                                     16.3</div> <div> 8<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >th</FONT> grade                                     14.8</div> <div> 9<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >th</FONT> grade                                     16.2</div> <div> 10<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >th</FONT> grade                                   14.8</div> <div> 11<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >th</FONT> grade                                   14.6</div> <div> 12<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >th</FONT> grade                                   11.3</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Ethnicity</U></B></div> <div> Caucasian                                   57.8</div> <div> Asian                                            3.7</div> <div> Hispanic                                       9.8</div> <div> African American                        8.4</div> <div> Native American                          3.9</div> <div> Mixed                                         16.3</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Statistical Procedures</I></div> <bR> <div>         A Crosstab was used to examine the effect of (each independent variable) on the (dependent variable).......  Data was entered into SPSS for analysis.</div> <bR> <bR> <div>   </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>