{"id":33273,"date":"2025-11-14T11:49:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?page_id=33273"},"modified":"2025-11-14T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:50:00","slug":"janet-siltanen-festschrift-examples-ma-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/janet-siltanen-festschrift-examples-ma-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet Siltanen Festschrift: Examples: MA Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Examples: MA Research\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>To help you understand what the design spine involves, here are\u00a0examples of design spines produced by two first year MA Sociology students, Jennifer Snoeks and Kent Hall, in the second half of their winter term Logic of the Research Process course. For our Sociology MA students, the thinking, exploration and decision-making involved in successive versions of the design spine feed into the writing of a thesis proposal due as soon as possible after the completion of their first year course work. Thank you Jennifer and Kent for your permission to post your work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"design-spines-produced-by-ma-student-jennifer-snoeks\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Design Spines Produced by MA Student Jennifer Snoeks<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer&#8217;s first three design spines show the development of a research focus and specific research questions typical of the early stages of the research design process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n                \n        <div class=\"cu-column cu-component not-contained mx-auto grid max-w-5xl md:grid-cols-3 gap-6 md:gap-10\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100   \">\n    \n                        <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n                \n        \n    \n    <h2 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n        Jennifer&#8217;s Design Spine #1\u00a0\n    <\/h2>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n        \n        \n                                \n            <footer class=\"px-6 pt-3 mt-auto text-white md:pt-5\">\n                <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.janetsiltanen.ca\/jenn.ds1.pdf\" class=\"cu-button cu-button--red cu-button--small\">\n                    Read more\n                <\/a>\n            <\/footer>\n            <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100   \">\n    \n                        <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n                \n        \n    \n    <h2 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n        Jennifer&#8217;s Design Spine #2\n    <\/h2>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n        \n        \n                                \n            <footer class=\"px-6 pt-3 mt-auto text-white md:pt-5\">\n                <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.janetsiltanen.ca\/jenn.ds2.pdf\" class=\"cu-button cu-button--red cu-button--small\">\n                    Read more\n                <\/a>\n            <\/footer>\n            <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100   \">\n    \n                        <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n                \n        \n    \n    <h2 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n        Jennifer&#8217;s Design Spine #3\n    <\/h2>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n        \n        \n                                \n            <footer class=\"px-6 pt-3 mt-auto text-white md:pt-5\">\n                <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.janetsiltanen.ca\/jenn.ds3.pdf\" class=\"cu-button cu-button--red cu-button--small\">\n                    Read more\n                <\/a>\n            <\/footer>\n            <\/div>\n    \n\n        <\/div>\n\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"design-spine-produced-by-ma-student-kent-hall\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Design Spine Produced by MA Student Kent Hall<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This is Kent\u2019s final design spine produced for the Logic of the Research Process course. It sets out a research project that has a well-articulated and sociologically-located research question, with a research strategy tightly linked to this question. The rationale for specific research sites was set out in the research proposal developed from this design spine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n                \n        <div class=\"cu-column cu-component not-contained mx-auto grid max-w-5xl md:grid-cols-3 gap-6 md:gap-10\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100   \">\n    \n                        <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n                \n        \n    \n    <h2 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n        Kent&#8217;s Design Spine\n    <\/h2>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n        \n        \n                                \n            <footer class=\"px-6 pt-3 mt-auto text-white md:pt-5\">\n                <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.janetsiltanen.ca\/kent.ds4.pdf\" class=\"cu-button cu-button--red cu-button--small\">\n                    Read more\n                <\/a>\n            <\/footer>\n            <\/div>\n    \n\n        <\/div>\n\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help you understand what the design spine involves, here are\u00a0examples of design spines produced by two first year MA Sociology students, Jennifer Snoeks and Kent Hall, in the second half of their winter term Logic of the Research Process course. 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