1. This guide is created to be a resource to you as you work on your Final Project report for SOSC 1859.
It will help you do a literature review*: find information, ideas, and theories to provide context and evidence to support your sociological analysis of your field work (interviews).
The ideas and theories you should use are mainly the sociological ones that your professor has introduced in SOSC 1859.
2. You Know More than You Think You Do
You have already learned about doing library & scholarly literature research and how to combine it to write papers and reports in different LANG courses. The methods and process are similar. Refresh you memories with the guides below:
You just will need to apply those methods and processes to new questions and use different research tools.
* This Guide from the University of Southern California Libraries, "The Literature Review" is full of useful information & details.
You select documents on the topic that contain information, ideas, data, & evidence
You write it from specific standpoints - express views on the nature of the topic & how you will investigate the topic or question(s)
You effectively evaluate (appraise critically, not just summarize) the documents you selected in relation to the research you propose.
(Hart 1998, p.13)
(Hart 1998, p. 13)
Questions your Literature Review can answer about your topic
(Hart 1998, p. 14)
Hart, Chris. Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination. London: Sage, 1998. (HKUST Library H62 .H2566 1998)
