Overview This is your final assignment for this class and it reflects all of the

Overview
This is your final assignment for this class and it reflects all of the work you’ve done over the course of the semester. It is worth a large proportion (20 percent) of your final grade and you should take it very seriously.
This assignment has been designed so that the SPSS work you have done over the course can be easily integrated into it. If you used variables that you selected for your research in those assignments, much of that work should be able to be copied directly into this assignment. This is especially true of the crosstabs assignment. The main purpose of this assignment is to have you summarize and describe all the work you did for the class.
Directions
Please complete the following tasks:
Introduce Your Topic 
Explain what your topic is and introduce it well enough to make its sociological relevance clear. Try to establish why your audience should care about the topic.
You do not need to mention the specific variables you used in your analysis but you want to describe your research thoroughly enough that your audience has a clear understanding of what your analysis will focus on. For example, with the gender and mental health example that I’ve been using this semester,  I would discuss that I plan to look at gendered differences in how people report on their experiences with depression as well as how often they have poor mental health days.
Title this section “Introduction”
Summarize your Annotated Bibliography
Summarize what you learned from the articles you included in your annotated bibliography.
You should focus on developing connections between the sources. Try to focus on ideas that are supported by multiple sources.
You should also focus on presenting the main ideas from each source. It’s not necessary to summarize things like the literature review or the research methods used. Assuming you are summarizing research articles, your emphasis should be on the authors’ primary findings.
Be sure to include all of your sources and give the authors credit. If you write your analysis, please ASA Style in-text citations.
Title this section “Literature Review”
Write Your Hypotheses
Your hypotheses will explain what relationships you expect to find between your variables
Explain your goals with this research project. What are you exploring? You can think about this as a general summary of the relationships expressed in your hypotheses. You don’t need to review each of your individual hypotheses though, the idea is that you will try to briefly state what all of your hypotheses have in common.
For example, the literature on gender and health clearly establishes that men are less likely to take their health seriously, to visit doctors, or to even acknowledge that they have health problems. Based on that, I would expect to find that men are less likely than women to report experiencing trouble with their mental health. You should try to write a bit more than that (one paragraph would be good).
Ideally, what you learned from the sources you used for your annotated bibliography should directly inform what you expect to find. You want to focus on those connections as much as possible.
Once you have generally explained your research, please state your hypotheses directly. You will have a total of four hypotheses, one for each crosstab you create (more on that below).
Please number your hypotheses in some way. You can just put them in a bulleted list or write out “For hypothesis one, I expect to find…” I do not care how you present them so long as they numbered.
Title this section “Research Goals and Hypotheses”
Describe Your Research Process
Assume that your audience is people who have some basic sociological knowledge but are not familiar with the work you did this semester. You are going to want to include things like:
Where the data you analyzed came from (the GSS, be sure to mention the specific year).
The variables you used. Be sure to mention which variables are independent and dependent.
How the data in your original variables (before you transformed them) was organized. This doesn’t mean that you need to list every category though. Saying “for the mental health days variable, the responses included 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8…” would be excessive. It would be more appropriate to say something like “for the mental health days variable, respondents were asked to report the number of days of poor mental health they experienced in the previous month. They responded with a single value between one and 30.” Other examples include:
“The race variable was organized into three categories: white, Black, and other”
“For the depression variable, respondents were asked to indicate whether they had ever been diagnosed with depression. They could respond with yes or no.”
Summaries of your variables you included in your analysis. Unless they are very simple two category variables, please include a bar chart for each one. You can also include bar charts for two-category variables if you prefer.
You do not need to mention every category in your variables for this requirement either but you do want to be more specific. For the variables I have mentioned, I might explain:
How many white people, Black people, and “others” were included in the analysis.
How likely people were to report experiencing poor mental health days.
What percentage of respondents indicated they have been diagnosed with depression.
How you transformed the variables you used and why you transformed them the way that you did.
For example, if you used the “RACE” variable, you might say something like “I simplified the race variable so that there were only two categories: white and Black. The “other” category would be too vague to use in the analysis so I removed it.”
Another example: “For the days of poor mental health variable, I organized people’s responses into the following categories and ranges:
Seldom: Between 1 and 6 days.
Often: Between 7 and 12 days.
Frequent: 12 or more days.”
How you analyzed your data (crosstabs with the Chi-square test for statistical significance).
Please title this section “Data and Methods”
Describe Your Data Analysis Process
This is the work you did for the Crosstabs assignment.
Include a copy of each of your crosstabs in the template that I shared in the crosstabs assignment. Do not copy and paste or take screenshots directly from SPSS. I would like you to present the crosstabs alongside your analysis. This means copying them into the body of your essay, showing them as you analyze them in a video, or submitting them as a separate document alongside an audio recording.
Describe each of your crosstabs by mentioning:
The variables used and which ones were independent and dependent.
Your hypothesis for the relationship summarized in the crosstab.
Summarize the results of the crosstab. Describe the relationship it expresses.
Whether the results support or contradict your hypothesis.
What the Chi-square value indicates about the statistical significance of the relationship.
Your analysis should be written out or described in a “cohesive” way. Please explain the relationship found in the crosstab and what it means. Think about this as you explaining what it means to people who are not familiar with crosstabs. You will need to include something more than “51 percent of respondents said “blah blah blah” and this was not statistically significant.”
Please title this section “Findings and Analysis”
Conclude Your Review
Summarize what you learned from the crosstabs analysis. The point of the crosstabs is to describe very specific findings in terms of the variables you used. Here, you just want to generally summarize what you learned and what you think was important Be sure to mention:
How much support you had for your hypotheses. Did what you expected to find hold true? If not, why do you think that was?
Whether the relationships were statistically significant.
Finish with a couple of important “takeaways” from your analysis. This can just be the main things you learned about your topic by completing this research but you might also mention whether there is a need for additional research or if there are any policies that should be introduced to address issues connected to your topic.
Title this section “Conclusion”