Discussion Question
Outline for Statement of the Problem and Content Analysis Paper
Theodoric Manley, Jr. PhD
Statement of the Problem Paper
Theodoric Manley, Jr. PhD
Cover Page
Title of paper and name
Example: “Reproducing Masculine and Feminine Cultural Emotions of Hate and Love in the Media”
Your first and last name
Prepared for SOC 3000 Section #
Submitted to: Theodoric Manley, Jr. PhD
Introduction
Discuss the question, theme, hypothesis you are specifically interested in researching for your content analysis.
What is/are the cultural emotion (s) you’re examining (dependent variable (s) want you want to explain, interpret, understand, predict etc.?)
For example:
“This content analysis seeks to investigate the variety of ways feminine and masculine forms of identity and social relations of gender reproduced the cultural emotions of hate and love utilizing various scenes and cultural scripts from the 1st season of the show ‘Sex and the City.”
Research Design
Discuss the ways you think these cultural emotion (s) are aroused. What are the independent variables that cause the arousal (independent variables)—i.e. emotion norms
Discuss the the social arrangement (s) (independent variable) you want to investigate to understand how the cultural emotion (s) are manifested (realized, seen, felt, etc.)—class/social status; Gender/transgender; Race and ethnicity/racialization; Sexuality; Social Movements
Discuss how your topic relates to the course readings, lectures, discussions etc.: elements of emotions and approaches; definitions and social science themes; social arrangements; selected and abbreviated theories of cultural emotions, emotion norms, surface ad deep acting; socialization (direct and indirect); emotion deviance; cultural privilege emotions; etc.
Content Analysis: What is it?
Content analysis is a widely used qualitative research technique.
Content analysis is a technique for systematically describing written, spoken or visual communication.
Content analysis provides a quantitative (numerical) description.
Content analyses involve media - print (newspapers, magazines), television, video, movies, the Internet. ... Content refers to the meaning of the information.
Example of Quantitative Numerical Description— “Sexual Emotional Arousal and the Heterosexual Male Gaze” DU, 2011 Student Paper (Content: American Apparel Magazine)
| Body Position | Female | Male |
| Standing | 14 | 2 |
| Sitting | 7 | 1 |
| Laying | 12 | 0 |
| Kneeling | 4 | 0 |
| Unknown | 1 | 2 |
| Total | 38 | 5 |
| Body Direction | Female | Male |
| Front View | 20 | 4 |
| Back View | 5 | 0 |
| Side View | 13 | 1 |
| Total | 38 | 5 |
| Clothing | Female | Male |
| Full | 5 | 5 |
| Some | 19 | 0 |
| Little | 14 | 0 |
| Total | 38 | 5 |
Example of Content: Advertisement display
Content
What content will you use to explore your cultural emotion (s)?
Film,
Music,
Art,
Photography
Internet content (Face book, Twitter, Instagram
Media such as
Newspaper articles (national, state and local),
News stories (national state. local,
Documentaries,
Popular culture magazines
Commercials
Etc.
Preliminary Data Analysis
Discuss how you will code this information to develop frequencies, patterns and trends to measure your cultural emotions.
For example, using the 1st season from sex and the city this analysis will select scenes from this show and conduct a text/discourse analysis using the following codes as measures for documenting how masculine and feminine cultural scripts reproduce the cultural emotions of hate and love. Example codes:
Male hate and love (types of conversations: attraction, importance, needs, wants, desires for a female in their life)
Female hate and love (types of conversations: attraction, importance, needs, wants, desires for a male in their life; what a woman must do to attract Mr. Right— (fashion/dress, verbal and nonverbal gestures, sex)
The centrality of masculinity (male as instrumental, “doer”, heterosexual, relational and transactional sex)
Lack of feminist ideology (female as docile, dependent, emotional etc.)
Academic Literature: Social Science/Media and Communications
List and briefly discuss what supporting literature will you use to investigate your cultural emotion (s)--(social science/media and communication journals, books, published and unpublished reports etc.) visual and audio texts, etc.
Condensed Statement of the Problem Outline
Cover Page
Introduction
Research Design
Content Analysis
Preliminary data analysis
Academic Literature
(5-7 pages; 10 maximum)
Friday March 13th , 2020 by 11:59 PM
Format and Style for Statement of Problem and Content Analysis Papers
12pt
Times Roman
Double Space
Use APA style (American Psychological Association)
Content Analysis Paper
Theodoric Manley, Jr. PhD
Title of Paper
Author
Course SOC 3000 Section# Cultural Emotions
Professor Ted Manley, Jr.
Abstract of Paper
This paper explores, examines and seeks to interpret the multi-faceted ways in which sex, sexuality, and gender are reproduced in the city. The primary goal is to unpack the heterosexist dominant view of sex by demonstrating the limited number of spaces in which alternative sexualities can be expressed, shared and enjoyed in a sexually diverse city.
Introduction to Paper
Theme of the paper—what was studied—key issues, concepts, themes addressed
What are the major findings, outcomes, and policy implications of the literature (--remember the personal is political)
How are the readings read in class related to the study
Literature Review
What has been done in previous research? Discuss on your literature review of secondary sources and the major findings, outcomes, and policy implications of the literature.
How did the authors conduct their research. Discuss how the literature supports your analysis
Methods
How did you do it?
What did you do? Who did you do it with (not literally)? When? Where? Why? And How come?
What data collection strategies did you use to code and analyze your content?
Findings/Results
What did you find in terms of the following:
Social arrangement (s)
Cultural Emotion (s)
Discussion
What did you learn?
What are the major findings from this study?
How does it link to prior work?
Conclusion
Implications of your work.
what individuals, groups and subgroups, institutions, service agencies will be best served by what you have done?
Future research
Bibliography
Books
Articles
Internet
Personal interviews
Newspapers
Magazines
Etc.
(including statement of problem 10-15 pages/ 20- maximum)
Final Due Date For all Sections of SOC 3000 Cultural Emotions
August 6th Tuesday by 11:59 PM