Due Date: Mar 02 2016
Write an essay (1250-1500 words) analyzing marriage.
To frame the context consider that currently the legal definition and composition of marriage is
changing globally and begs the question: What constitutes a marriage?
To complete this assignment address the following:
1.Define and/or interpret marriage: to what extent is marriage culturally (religiously?) determined?
2.What are different forms of marriage (arranged convenience interracial economic political domestic partnerships etc.)?
3.Is there a particular form of marriage that you believe to be the correct one? If so what do you base this on?
4.Marriage is not static: What in the human psyche makes the stages of marriage inevitable? Are the stages inevitable?
5.Those students who are married or cohabitating will reflect and evaluate the current stage of their marriage or relationship. Is the marriage consistent with respect to the defined stages?
6.Students who are single will reflect and evaluate the marital stage of someone they know. Is the marriage consistent with respect to the defined stages?
7.Considering the increasing divorce rates is marriage necessary in contemporary society? Why do people continually engage in a dying institution?
8.Use the GCU eLibrary databases; include a minimum offive to sixoutside references or other resources for evidentiary support one of which may include the textbook podcast or Website.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide located in the
Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment;
therefore students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. Only Word documents can be submitted to Turnitin.

In this assignment you will write an essay about the research methods and ethical implications of a social psychology study. You will get information about the study from one of the entries in the SPARQ Solutions Catalog which is a web site maintained by Stanford University at https://sparq.stanford.edu/solutions?&&. SPARQ is an acronym for Social Psychological Answers to Real-world Questions. Each entry in the Solutions Catalog names a problem and then offers a solution to that problem based on a research study in social psychology.
To keep this assignment short and manageable your only sources for this assignment should be from the SPARQ site and your course materials such as your textbook. There is no need for you to cite any of the course materials. Therefore no additional citations or references are needed beyond those from the SPARQ site.
In this exercise you will choose one of the entries in the SPARC site and then write a two to three (2-3) page paper that meets the following requirements.
Begin your paper with a short introductory statement that clearly identifies the article from the SPARQ site that you are using as well as the corresponding research article. Model your statement after the following example:
The article I selected from the SPARQ website is entitled Boost Grades by Reframing Failures (Wilson n.d.) which summarizes a research article (Wilson & Linville 1982) on the topic.
Please note that there are two APA in-text citations in this example. The first citation (Wilson n.d.) is an in-text citation for the SPARQ article. The SPARQ articles are undated which means that there is no date of publication reported. The n.d. designation is an abbreviation for no date.
The second citation (Wilson & Linville 1982) is an in-text citation to the original research article. We are asking you to cite this paper for practice in using APA but are not requiring you to read the original paper. Normally you should cite only those articles that you actually read and used but were making an exception here for the purposes of practice.
Briefly summarize the main details of your chosen social psychology research study. Identify the main research method(s) used in the study (e.g. case study experiment observation etc.).
Explain whether or not you believe the research methodology that the researchers used in the study was the most appropriate for the study. Provide a rationale for your response.
Discuss whether or not you believe the research methodology used in the study is the one (1) method that provides researchers with the most information in general. Explain the main reasons why or why not.
Explain the major ethical implications of the selected study (e.g. informed consent debriefing etc.). Describe the main reasons why you believe the study was or was not ethical. Provide a rationale for your response.
The final section of your paper will be a reference section that contains a corresponding reference for both of the in-text citations in your introductory statement (see point #1 above). In APA-style citations in-text citations must match up with a reference in the reference section. You can model your reference section after the following:
Wilson T. D. (n.d.). Boost grades by reframing failures. Retrieved from https://sparq.stanford.edu/solutions/boost-grades-reframing-failures
Wilson T. D. & Linville P.W. (1982). Improving the academic performance of college freshmen: attribution therapy revisited. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 42(2) 367-376.