For this file assignment you need to do some preliminary research to identify your domain of study. To begin with you should describe what you are interested by providing one detailed example. The example can be drawn from your own experience, or one that you have learned about from other scholarship (i.e. from ‘existing research’.) Once you've explained a concrete example of what interests you (“in your own words”), compare and contrast how two different sociological perspectives presented in the Annual Review of Sociology article you read for Discussion Board Post #1 would understand the situation you describe. Conclude your paper by outlining the kinds of research you could do to help you to explain the significance of your case. If it helps use the following outline (each point is a short paragraph):

YOU MUST ANSWER the following QUESTIONS

1.      Provide a Detailed Description of the case that interests you

2.      Explain how one sociological perspective you could use to analyze this case would understand the case

3.      Explain how another sociological perspective you could use to analyze this case would understand the case

4.      Describe a what kinds of research studies could help you tease apart the difference in these existing sociological perspectives. What kinds of data would you need to really know which perspective is right, and what kinds of patterns would you look for in that data?