Research Paper
This course entails one major project: An anthropological analysis of a controversial piece of legislation. Each student will choose a piece of (attempted) legislation—it could be in NYC, the state of New York, the USA; in a different country; or it could be international. Through this assignment, students will:
Increase understanding of the role of formal and informal forces on law,
Develop skills for analyzing systems of powers at work in human groups,
Develop capabilities necessary to compose scholarly papers.
As part of this assignment, students will be expected to:
Critically analyze in-class and outside academic (peer reviewed) materials,
Conduct at least two interviews with individuals connected to this piece of legislation (i.e., supporters, opponents, lawyers, activists, stakeholders, etc.),
Research and read printed materials related to the legislation (i.e., legal briefs, newspaper articles, op-eds, blog posts, newsletters, etc.),
Integrate issues/themes from class readings/lectures and your outside research in a research paper analyzing the sociocultural and political factors related to the controversy surrounding the law.
This is to help you find a topic
The outline must consist of
Thesis statement (please underline it and put in bold).
Main points (used to support the thesis statement)
Supporting arguments (used to support each main point)
Citations of the sources you will use (this will come from your bibliography; yes, the sources could have changed since when you submitted the bibliography)
Bibliography containing 6 academic outside sources and 4 academic sources from the syllabus (you do not need to include your annotations)
In other words, it should take the following format:
Introduction
Attention grabber
Hypothesis
Supporting evidence
Argument 1
Argument 2
Argument 3, 4, 5…
Supporting paragraph 1 (i.e., Argument 1)
Topic sentence
Evidence (from participant observation, interviews and/or academic sources)
Explanation of evidence (relating to topic sentence)
Explanation of evidence (relating to hypothesis)
Supporting paragraph 2 (i.e., Argument 2)
Topic sentence
Evidence (from participant observation, interviews and/or academic sources)
Explanation of evidence (relating to topic sentence)
Explanation of evidence (relating to hypothesis)
Supporting paragraph 3
Supporting paragraph 4
Supporting paragraph 5….
Conclusion
Restate hypothesis
Review evidence
Wrap up/”drop the mic” (aka, restate why this research is important)
The thesis statement is the main claim that you will be supporting throughout your analysis. It comes from the hypotheses that you’ve been developing throughout the semester.
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