Please prepare a literature review on ONE of the following topics:
–impact of media on human behavior and attitude
–relationship between socioeconomic status and success in school
–gender stereotypes commonly presented in the media and entertainment industry
–impact of unemployment rate on crime
–factors leading to gang affiliation or membership
–drug of choice based on socioeconomic status
Your literature review must contain at least FIVE scholarly sources (peer-reviewed journal articles, NOT newspaper/magazine articles.).
Be sure to provide complete citations for each article on a Works Cited page.
The assignment has TWO components:
1. A written overview of each of your five journal articles—all five must be included and each should receive one medium-length paragraph of discussion. Do
not copy-paste article abstracts. Summarize the article in your own words, focusing on the researcher’s variables, methods, data and findings. Please raise
any criticism or reflections you have on the article briefly at the end of each paragraph.
2. Construct a table that identifies the key concepts (i.e. variables), methods of investigation (Survey? Ethnography? Experiment? Interviews?),
measurements of variables (operational definitions), and findings for each article. You do not need to use complete sentences. However, be sure your
phrasing is clear to someone who has not read the article (me).
**All articles should be fully and properly cited (author, title, journal, date of publication, page numbers of journal) in a Works Cited section at the end of your
paper.
***What is a “scholarly” paper? àA peer-reviewed article in a social scientific journal. Examples of such are American Sociological Review, Work and
Occupations, Journal of Marriage and Family, Criminology, etc.