The militarization of police in the U.S.

The link below has an interactive graphic that is searchable by county.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/15/us/surplus-military-equipment-map.html

Rural Americans and Political Anger

From Vox:

A Princeton sociologist spent 8 years asking rural Americans why they’re so pissed off

Hint: it’s not about the economy.

Robert Wuthnow, a sociologist at Princeton University, spent eight years interviewing Americans in small towns across the country. He had one goal: to understand why rural America is so angry with Washington.  Wuthnow’s work resulted in a new book, The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America. He argues that rural Americans are less concerned about economic issues and more concerned about Washington threatening the social fabric of small towns and causing a “moral decline” in the country as a whole. The problem, though, is that it’s never quite clear what that means or how Washington is responsible for it.

Fragile Masculinity, Trump Voters and Google Trends Data

Using Google Trends to research fragile masculinity and Trump voters.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/11/29/how-donald-trump-appeals-to-men-secretly-insecure-about-their-manhood/?utm_term=.4a9f93c35f71

From boasting about the size of his penis on national television to releasing records of his high testosterone levels, President Trump’s rhetoric and behavior exude machismo. His behavior also seems to have struck a chord with some male voters. See, for example, the “Donald Trump: Finally Someone With Balls” T-shirts common at Trump rallies.
But our research suggests that Trump is not necessarily attracting male supporters who are as confidently masculine as the president presents himself to be. Instead, Trump appears to appeal more to men who are secretly insecure about their manhood. We call this the “fragile masculinity hypothesis.” Here is some of our evidence.

Kirwan Institute Implicit Bias Training Modules

http://www.kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/implicit-bias-training/

Continuing Step 2: Literature Review

Please continue to research what has been published about your topic already.   Keep noting what research has been done.  Keep a list of the citation information and a summary of what the research is about. 

Use academic sociology journal articles.  The SHS ILC database JSTOR will be especially helpful here.   JSTOR, an online database that you can search by subject. Go to the SHS Library online where you can login to JSTOR under "Academic Journals". Click here to go directly to JSTOR Advanced search.

Also use the “the Society Pages,” a website of sociology resources, especially Discoveries page, and on the Contexts page, the In Brief section.

Note the citation information for each article you study. Once you are logged on, scroll down to select "sociology" then search any subject you would like.  You should add each article to a bibliography and annotate/summarize these articles.  In your research project, you should make sense of the background research you find.  What have other authors concluded?  How does the research fit together?  What story does the research tell?  What information is left out of the previous literature?