The article does not have to be from the project you will eventually choose, but of course if it is that would be a good thing. Keep a copy of the article since it will be used in later exercises and I may ask to see it if I don't understand your answers. Read the article and then answer the questions below derived from Shutt, Appendix C, page 514. Make your answers clear, specific, and as short as feasable. Try to state it in just one sentence.
Some articles report the results of research based on data.
The data may be from an experiment, a survey, participant observation, archives of records and documents, etc. Such articles car called empirical because they are based on an attempt to observe or measure aspects of the world through available means. Other articles try to develop theory about general sociological problems. These theoretical articles usually refer to data and results from empirical articles, but there are no observations or measurements of data reported uniquely in the theoretical article.