African-American in Alabama Social Background of the Author

33 race prejudice underlying the Jim Crow Law practices revealed in Black Like Me. Those previous research have the similarities topic about racial prejudice which are done by majority toward minorities. In addition, these two research talk about reflection of literary study to real life. In this research the researcher focuses on racial prejudice as one of the root of problems in society. Sociology of Literature The impact of racial prejudice Difference in custom Racial Prejudice against others family The cause of racial prejudice Segregation Oppression Discrimination Racial Prejudice Revealed in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Racial Prejudice Racial Prejudice against black people Difference in Race Oppression toward Atticus Racial Prejudice against Radley’s family Racial Prejudice against Cunningham’s family Discrimination toward black people Segregation in a church Segregation in a courtroom To Kill a Mockingbird as the mirror of prejudice in Alabama Racial Prejudice against Tom Robinson 35

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

A. The Research Design

The type of this research is a qualitative research. Creswell 2007: 36 sees a qualitative research as an investigation process of comprehension based on distinctive methodological traditions which explore a social or human problem. Qualitative research studies things in natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpreting phenomena in terms of the meaning people bring to them. Thus, the researcher builds a complex, holistic picture, analyzes words, reports detail information and conducts the study in a natural setting. In addition to the concept of natural inquiry, a qualitative researcher is unable to manipulate the data as he or she only describes or explains a phenomenon as its fact. Furthermore, content analysis is used to analyze the work. It is a method in qualitative research that is used to analyze text data obtained from print media such as articles, books, or manual Kondracki Wellmen in Wahyuni, 2012: 122. The data collected in this research are used to analyze the form of racial prejudices that are described in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the cause of racial prejudice in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the impacts of racial prejudice in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, and that Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird reflects real condition of Alabama.