Final PaperR Draft (1000 words minimum)

ANALYTICAL RESEARCH PAPER PROMPT

The final project for the course is an analytical research paper that focuses on the organizational and leadership dynamics of a social change organization of your choice that you have familiarity with. When choosing the organization you want to examine it can be either an organization that you have personally participated (or are participating) in, or it can be an organization (contemporary or historical) you are familiar with through reading. By “analytical research paper,” I mean that purpose of this paper is for you to provide an in-depth analysis of the organization of your choosing. In providing that analysis, you will draw on readings from this class, outside literature researched on your own ( please use a minimum of five academic sources that are not included on our syllabus (but do use some ), and (depending on your engagement with the organization) your own personal experience. If you are writing about an organization you did not personally work within, you will also likely need to do some reading (or potentially interview members) about the organization’s history to be able to respond to the sections (below). 

The final project for the course is a research paper that should be around 3000 words.  Please use APA format.

For details, check attached pdf.

Sources from the syllabus:

Chetkovich, C., & Kunreuther, F. (2006). From the ground up: Grassroots organizations making social change. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Chapters 1 and 2. [These chapters will be the basis of the Collaborative Annotation Assignment this week. If you prefer, you may consider reading them in Perusall]

Brown, M.J. (2006). Building powerful community organizations: A personal guide to creating groups that can solve problems and change the world. Arlington, Massachusetts: Long Haul Press. Chapters 1 and 2.

Jobin-Leeds, G., & AgitArte. (2016). When we fight we win! Twenty-first-century social movements and the activists that are transforming our world. New York: The New Press. Chapter 2.

Ryan, C., & Gamson, W. A. (2015). Are Frames Enough? In Goodwin, J., & Jasper, J.M. (Ed.) The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts, Third Edition (pp. 136-142). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.