First learn what I did in proposal. Starting from there you can write a paper.
You should write theoretical dissertation with secondary research method (Do not use 1st research method)
Paper should be more theoretical and argumentative.
You can give between 30-40 citation. Don’t do too much. You must write paper and be argumentative and NOT analysing data.
Notes from profes. (based on my proposal paper)
You’ve done a brilliant job of assessing the literature! This is far too ambitious for an undergraduate dissertation though. To combine all your intentions here, you’d need a PhD length project. Here are some main comments:
- It’s fine to write the proposal like this, but when it comes to the literature review for your final submission, don’t just mention each piece of literature. Draw out the key point each work is making, show how it fits in with the overall development of the field, and how what you’re doing adds to this.
- Don’t use more than one research question. This will take your project in too many different directions. I would suggest focusing on the first question. However, you’ll need to define “psychological politics” very tightly.
- You only need one method. Between surveys, interviews, participant observation, and document analysis, you only need to select one. I can’t see participant observation helping you to answer the research question. If you do surveys or interviews, you’ll need ethics approval, which it would be good to get sorted asap.
- There are two options I see as holding the most promise. Both involve firstly defining “psychological politics” very tightly. The first option is defining this term, then using either surveys or interviews to see how this is affecting people’s political behaviour. The second is keeping this a more theoretical project, and seeing if the idea of psychological politics is something new, or if it’s always been part of politics.
1)Start narrowing this down, as my proposal was too far ambitions. Both methodology and question is too big for undergrad project.
2)Narrow to smth more specific.
3)Coming out with research question. (you can fix question slightly, without changing whole meaning of it)
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5)Can ask some questions, so naturally there will be questions that arise through the course, while writing. Should directly follow on from research question.
6)Aiming what my argument is.
7)Giving an example
Choose first question.
8)What we think and how be behave politically. Politics always influence how people think. Always been symbolic relationship.
9)Developing very good argument. Not like analysing data, but working with own argument.
10)Which theories explain my question well and not explain well. why?
11)What’s something different about psychological politics from now compare to past.
12)How politics relate psych now that in the past
13)This is how it’s been. This how it should be (give explanation in the paper)
14)Try to think of solution in terms of research question.
15)Pay your attention to your research questions