SOSC 3993 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Empirical Measure, Null Hypothesis, Dependent And Independent Variables
16 Jan 2015
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Chapter 4: reviewing the scholarly literature and planning a study. To apply social research, a topic must be about social patterns that operate in aggregates and be empirically measureable or observable. A literature review is a carefully crafted summary of the recent studies conducted on a topic that includes key findings and methods of researchers used while making sure to document the sources. First locate the relevant studies, read the major findings, central issues, and methods. Periodicals: newspapers, popular magazines, television, or radio broadcasts and internet- but there are not complete and lack essential detail. Scholarly journals: primary type of periodical used for literature review. Once you found a scholarly journal that reports on social science research studies; make sure that the article presents the results of a study, since the journal may have other types of articles. Citation: details of a scholarly journal article"s location that help people find it quickly.
