At this point your topic is likely still fairly broad as you're just beginning to explore it and understand some of the nuances to in order to narrow it. The more you're able to focus it, the easier it will be to find resources.
Research questions can develop from a number of different sources:
- Your own interests
- Observation
- Reading / previous science
- Playing with data (GSS)
- Something that has always bugged you (sociological)
Your own topic may have been seeded from an interest or an observation. To develop that seed even more, in this workshop you'll consult the previous science to see what scholars and researchers are investigating on the same topic. That is, you'll spend some time uncovering scholarly conversations. This will also help you narrow your topic to give it focus and depth.
To begin this uncovering of your social issue, you'll be using this topic map process below for Exercise 1.

Created in Google Jamboard, a free brainstorming/whiteboard service with your SCU account.