Content analysis Assignment: Final report
Step 1: Choose a movie (Parasite (2019) OR PK (2014) that reflects elements of social life that can be explained using sociological concepts that is what your task is in this assignment. Choose wisely- finding no evidence of sociological concepts in a movie about people or even animals or aliens is impossible, however, the better the film you choose the more robust a paper you will write and therefore, the more points you will earn.
Movie : Parasite (2019) OR PK (2014)
Content analysis coding sheet
Reflecting on the lesson on culture, consider both our material culture (artifacts) and non material culture or symbolic culture (values, norms, language, sanctions, etc) that you expect the media you have selected will relate or even teach to the audience, or society in which it is popular.
4 paragraphs
In as many pages as you need, address the following sections. Use these headings.
Introduction (about 1 paragraph)
Introduce your research question and why you chose it.
What makes this topic sociologically important?
22. Methods discussion of your content analysis (one paragraph):
Introduce the titles of the sources you analyzed and why -What criteria did you use to select your sample? How did you decide which movie to watch?
How did you collect the data? (i.e how did you record your observations?) What specifically did you look at?
How did you then organize your data?
Did you run into difficulties in your data collection? What are the limitations of doing this kind of research? What are the limitations to this study specifically?
- 3 . Findings and Analysis (as many paragraphs as needed)
Findings = description of
patterns found; Analysis = what do the patterns mean?
This section should be the main part of your paper.
Discuss any patterns you found and/or relationships between aspects with regards to the theme you explored (eg. messages, assumptions, representations of race, class, gender, etc.)
Organize this section according to the themes or patterns you found (using subheadings you used in your data collection). Use some specific examples from your data to support the themes.
Connect to sociology. How might your findings relate to a sociological theory discussed in class?
So what? What do these patterns tell you about society? What local and global consequences might they have? What message or dominant ideology about society is being promoted?
4 . Conclusion
This should summarize the major points of your paper. What conclusions can you draw from your research?
What further questions about your media need to be explored? (If someone else was to do a similar study, what should they look at?)
IMPORTANT NOTES ABOUT YOUR PAPER:
Papers must be typed, double spaced with 12 pt. font
Include a bibliography if you referred to other references or the textbook.
DOING SOCIOLOGY FINAL CHECKLIST
Please check:
I used headings and sub-headings
I applied a sociological theory (functionalism, conflict, symbolic interaction, feminism, etc) and referred to sociology definitions (norms, values, material culture, defined social institutions, group dynamics, etc.) as needed in my analysis.
I included an appendix with a list of the media I used
I included my filled out coding sheets (1 per item for assignment 2, condensed for assignment 3)
I included my typed self-evaluation
I included a bibliography (if sources referenced)
I reviewed my paper for spelling and grammatical errors