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SOC 449
This document provides guidance on researching a sociology topic. It instructs the reader to choose a topic, identify relevant concepts and variables, and organize their search terms. It then demonstrates how to construct searches using Boolean operators and wildcards. The document also lists some specialized databases for sociological research and common citation errors. It emphasizes picking the correct database and matching search terminology to the database.
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- 1. Political Sociology sociology 449 cc:theqspeaks - https://www.flickr.com/photos/83261600@N00
- 2. Pick your topic Theimpact of Citizen’s United on sentencing by elected judges cc: Alex E. Proimos - https://www.flickr.com/photos/34120957@N04
- 3. What are themain issues. Think of terms and variables that characterize your thesis topic. Think about what discipline in addition to sociology would research your topic.
- 4. Organize cc: oemebamo -https://www.flickr.com/photos/91353934@N00 Remember synonyms, related concepts, and terminology specific to a database
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- 6. Connect use these toconstruct a search cc: Photosightfaces - https://www.flickr.com/photos/30595068@N06
- 7. Use this toconnect different variables. For example: race and incarceration and
- 8. Use this tosearch for either term. For example: television or film or
- 9. Use this tolook for root endings. For example: rac* looks for racial, race, races,
- 10. cUse this tosearch for phrases. For example: “race relations”
- 11. Sample Searches “citizen’s united”and sentencing Criminal court and elections and judges “Corporate donation*” and influence and judge* cc: Philip Taylor PT - https://www.flickr.com/photos/9731367@N02
- 12. Ways to SearchSpecializedResearch – Statistics- Selected Databases- Databases by Topic
- 13. Ethnic Groups cc: SpivaArts - https://www.flickr.com/photos/95823288@N05
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- 15. Photo by r4n- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License https://www.flickr.com/photos/23680473@N08 Created with Haiku Deck
- 16. Database by Topic. allowsyou to find articles in a specific discipline and use more advance terminology
- 17. Common Citation Errors. 1.Part of the citation is in ALL CAPS 2. Every Word Of The Article Title Is Capitalized 3. The journal title and volume are not italicized 4. The ending page number for your article is missing 5. There is no hanging indent Before
- 18. Fixing the Errors. 1.Change any words that are all caps 2. Make the appropriate words lower/upper case 3. Italicize the Journal Title and volume 4. Look at the PDF of your document and find the ending page number 5. Create a hanging indent After
- 19. Ctrl+ T* Creates paragraphs withhanging indents in Microsoft Word. Command for Mac *
- 20. find the article PDF- HTML - Full Text - Get it @ CSULB cc: escalepade - https://www.flickr.com/photos/24971777@N02
- 23. Research Recap • Pickthe correct database • Match your terminology to the database • Search more than one database • Keep track of your citations • Contact me for help BEFORE you get frustrated! cc: 427 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/7884518@N04