Sociology 2206A/B Chapter 4: Reviewing the Scholarly Literature and Planning a Study
14 Feb 2017
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Chapter 4 reviewing the scholarly literature and planning a study. Literature review: summary of recent studies conducted on a topic that includes key findings and methods the researcher used. Finding research literature: can be found in books, periodicals, dissertations, government documents, or policy reports. Can mostly only be found in a college or university library. Identifying quantitative studies is easy because the journal will have charts, data tables, etc: qualitative studies are harder to recognize. Citatio(cid:374): details of a s(cid:272)hola(cid:396)ly jou(cid:396)(cid:374)al a(cid:396)ti(cid:272)le"s lo(cid:272)atio(cid:374) that help people fi(cid:374)d it (cid:395)ui(cid:272)kly. Includes the date, volume number, and issue number. Abstracts: short summaries on the first page of the article or grouped together at the beginning of the issue: briefly describes the goal of the study and the outcome. Meta-analysis: the researcher analyzes the results from all the available studies on a given topic.
