Conviction and creativity outweigh theoretical precision, but your goal should be to achieve both. Traditional research paper covering any topic related to race and ethnicity. Test a theoretical perspective. For example, choose an ethnic group or community to examine symbolic ethnicity or cultural pluralism or Ogbu s oppositional culture argument. An interesting approach to such a project is to conduct your own fieldwork using survey, interviewing or participant observation techniques.
Fieldwork is a fun and immediate way to tap into ethnic and racial attitudes.
Again, there s a wide array of topics to choose from. You can also examine your own experiences with cultural assimilation or discrimination, to cite more examples. Be sure to position your self-reflections in the literature. It should be a sociological analysis, not a journal entry. Critique a debate.