SOC221H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: American Sociological Review, Modern Language Association, American Psychological Association
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Chapter 4 reviewing the scholarly literature and planning a study. A researcher usually begins with a general topic, narrows the topic down into a specific research question, and then makes decisions about the specifics of designing a study. Topics come from many sources (ex: previous studies, television/film, etc ) Topic must be about social patterns that operate in aggregates and be empirically measurable/observable. Literature review is a systematic examination of previously published studies on a research question that a researcher integrates together to prepare for conducting a study or to bring together and summarize the state of the field". It is a crafted summary of the recent studies conducted on a topic that includes key findings, and methods researchers used while making sure to document the sources. Enables you to grasp the elements that go into conducting a research study.
