Your study should include an abstract, a literature review, hypothesis, a detail

Your study should include an abstract, a literature review, hypothesis, a detailed explanation of your sampling methods and your data collection methods, a findings section, and a conclusion.
You may use qualitative methods (interviews, observations, focus groups, or qualitative content analysis) or quantitative methods (surveys, or quantitative content analysis). However, you cannot choose both. Just pick one way to collect data and run with that. Your goal is to show you can do a research project not to do your doctoral dissertation. Moreover, you must turn in copies of all of your data.
Please ensure that your research project has zero risk of harming your research subjects or yourself. Think very carefully about this. Does your project create potential for physical harm, psychological harm, social repercussions, legal repercussions, or work related repercussions? If the answer is yes or maybe, you should think of a different more benign topic for investigation. Remember crime and deviance are very closely related. You should investigate a form of deviance not crime. Finally, remember your goal is to test a theory by examining a specific form of deviance, think of the easiest way to test a particular theory.
In addition, before starting your research you must complete citiprogram.org’s online course on research ethics. (Most of you completed this in your methods class.) 
This is not an opportunity to produce propaganda for a social group or political cause that you feel strongly about. Social research is not an opportunity to “prove” our biases, but instead conducting social research is about better understand the social world.
Each paper must include the following:
Note: This is not an outline. How you collect your data will affect how you structure your paper.
1.    Abstract
– 150-word summary of your pilot study.
2. Introduction
– Introduce your proposed study
3. Literature Review
– Explain the theory that you will be using to explore an area of deviance (see the examples posted on Blackboard).
– Create a strong summary of at least five journal articles that create the foundation of your study.
4. Hypothesis
– Based off the information in your literature review what do you expect to find in your
study?
– Make sure your literature creates the foundation for your hypothesis/study.
– Describe your independent and dependent variables.
5. Sampling
– How did you create your sample? (Be specific about your sampling design) 
6. Data Collection
– How did you collect your data? (Be specific!)
-Ethnography, Interviews, Surveys, or Content Analysis.
– How did you operationalize your variables?
7. Findings/Analysis
– Present the data from your research.
– Present the data relevant to your research question and interpret the results. (Let the        reader know why your findings are important).
8. Discussion/Conclusion
– Summarize your study and remind the reader why it is important.
-What did you discover? Where should researchers look next?
9. Reference page
– ASA NOT APA
– Properly cite throughout your paper.
– Please cite correctly!
– Purdue OWL website is a good resource.
– Librarians are helpful as well.
The paper is due by __________ North American Eastern Standard Time.
Suggestions:
Read Chapter 15 in Babbie’s The Basics of Social Research. The chapter offers a great deal of detail on the writing process as well as the structure needed for a research paper. Also, ensure that you find you old methods book/notes and review ideas related to conventionalization, operationalization, sampling, and your whatever method you are going to use to gather your data.
I strongly suggest borrowing the structure/format of a study that relates to your topic and that you think is done well. Take their completed study and revert it back into an outline and then use that outline to inform how you will structure your paper.