How to make subquestions

This page will help you subdivide the mainquestion into smaller part.

The main question can be divided into smaller research questions.

In the first assigments the teachers gave you the Research questions in the case discription.

Examples are:

Politics: What do the central concepts ‘politics’ and ‘democracy’ mean? And why do

we have a democratic political system in the Netherlands?

Culture: Explain why we have a pluralistic society in the Netherlands, looking at

historic developments in and around our country through the past

centuries.

These questions however are still to extensive for research. Therefore you need to cut these questions into smaller subquestions.

Like this:

Politics: What is democracy? Which different types of democracy do you have?

Culture: What is a pluralistic society. How do we recognize this in de Dutch history?

Use the following checklist to check if your sub questions are correct.