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Week 3, Assignment 2

Overview - For this Assignment-Worksheet, you will choose ONE social problem and start to explore research from sociology journals that have been conducted on that topic. For example, you might select unemployment among minority populations or even poverty among veterans.

You will search the APUS library and other reputable scholarly websites such as Google Scholar (more than the abstract; you must read the article) and find three current sociology journal articles from sociology journals that are focused on the social problem you selected. The journal articles should be no more than five years old.  

Instructions:

1. Choose “One” social problem.

2. Search the APUS library, Google Scholar, and other reputable scholarly sites to find three research studies on your ONE topic (sociology journal articles no more than five years old). Do not use unverifiable, secondary sites such as Wikipedia, ask.com, about.com, and similar.

3. Complete ( in your own words ) and submit the following worksheet for the three sociology journal articles.

Finding Research on a Social Problem
Student Name:
Research Topic:
Article #1
APA Formatted Reference – The journal article must be in APA format
Summary (at least 4 sentences)
Key Study Results (at least 5 sentences)
If you met with the authors think of a question you would ask them related to the stu dy (2 sentences).
Article #2
APA Formatted Reference – The journal article must be in APA format
Summary (at least 4 sentences)
Key Study Results (at least 5 sentences)
If you met with the authors think of a question you would ask them related to the study (2 sentences)
Article #3
APA Formatted Reference – The journal article must be in APA format
Summary (at least 4 sentences)
Key Study Results (at least 5 sentences)
If you met with the authors think of a question you would ask them related to the study (2 sentences)