Choose an area of interest for youabout family life in Canada with which you have some personal connection orhave always wondered about.

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Choose an area of interest for youabout family life in Canada with which you have some personal connection orhave always wondered about. For instance, perhaps you are personally interestedin family diversity since your family may have immigrated to Canada (recently,or not so recently), or perhaps you belong to a family with non-traditionalgender roles or non-heteronormative patterns of family life and would like toknow more about a specific non-traditional form of family life in Canada. Youcould also focus your study on the transformations of families through historyin Canada; on one specific ethnic group or around one specific aspect of familylife; such as courting, marriage, divorce, caring for the elderly or forchildren, or specific aspects of these family dynamics under certain familysituations such as divorce, or migration. Another area of study with possiblepersonal relevance could explore the way Aboriginal families have been affectedby the colonial relationship that has existed through history in Canada and itslatest developments. These are just a few examples of the many areas that youcan choose to explore through further study and research in which you can findsome personal connection of family life. You can focus your research on one ofthe topics covered in this course (such as family and disability, Aboriginalfamily life, diverse sexualities, consumerism and family life, gender divisionof labour, job markets and families) or topics not covered in the course, butabout which you would like to know more (such as domestic violence, courtship,family life for seniors, etc.). In the process of putting together a researchproject, it helps to focus on one specific area of family life in Canada and tochoose a topic to which you can relate personally.

Make sure you narrow your topic downby focusing on one of its specific aspects or areas. Before you do this, youneed to start your literature review (scholarly research) onyour area of interest to become more knowledgeable about the broad topic aboutwhich you are curious. Go to the library or the library web site to findscholarly sources and read the research on your area of interest on family lifein Canada to be able to tease out its various aspects. This assignment willallow you to go deeper in knowledge of your specific topic of study. In orderto do this, you need to narrow down your general area of interest to a specificaspect for family life in Canada. Choosing too broad a topic only results in asuperficial discussion.

Start your literature review early!This provides you with the opportunity to learn more about a broad topic thatyou are interested in and to find the specific aspect that you want to focus onand narrow it down properly.

Once you know more about your chosentopic, try to get your own voice on paper by writing the questions that youhave in your mind. Then, research to explore your own thinking further, tolearn what others think of the issue, and to find facts that support or refuteyour initial views.

Answer the questions that were onyour mind and keep a good set of research notes that will help you indeveloping your thoughts and defining a clear thesis.

Put together an essay outline inwhich you define a thesis and all the elements that need to be addressed in orderto prove it on the basis of the evidence that you have found in your research.

Complete a 20002500 word researchpaper on your chosen topic. You will beexpected to address your topic using the conceptual framework developed in thecourse, within a relevant sense of history, and drawing on sound documentedarguments and sociologicalevidence as required.

USE CONFLICT THEORY AND  Your topic should focus onan illustrative example from the reason you walk book

analyze your example in terms of the key concepts, basicassumptions, and underlying arguments of the theory of your choice. Try to showhow your sociological analysis adds to our understanding of the topic. You mayuse either a macrosociological or a microsociological framework of analysis.However, you cannot use any theoretical perspective that you have alreadyused to complete