SOC221H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4+9: American Sociological Review, Computer File, Notecards
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Literature review: reading the literature, or the collection of studies already published on the topic, serves several very important functions. First, it helps you narrowed down a broad topic by showing you have others conducted their studies. From the studies of others, you could learn the key ideas, terms, and issues that surround the topic. Consider replicating, testing, or extending what others already found third, the literature often stimulate your creativity and curiosity. Where to find research literature: researchers present reports of the research projects and several forms colin periodicals, books, dissertations, government documents, or policy reports, periodicals. You can find the results of social research in newspapers, in popular magazines, on television and radio broadcasts, and an internet new summaries, but these are not the full, complete reports of research required to prepare a literature review. It is easy for someone preparing first literature review to be confused about the many types of periodicals.
