This document provides guidance for researching the topic of how desegregation impacted poverty in urban areas. It identifies relevant keywords like socioeconomic status, white flight, poverty, and segregation. It recommends databases that would be useful for this topic, like those covering education policy, urban schools, and disadvantaged schools. The document also offers tips for effective search techniques in databases, such as using Boolean operators and proximity searching, as well as constructing targeted searches using the identified keywords. It stresses starting the search across multiple databases and keeping track of citations.

1. SOC 492
POVERTY and PUBLIC POLICY.

2. PICK your TOPIC
What are the
major issues?
What keywords
will help you
define your topic
Which Databases will
be useful? Who
researches your topic?

3. How did desegregation
impact poverty in urban
areas
Socioeconomic status
White flight
Poverty
Social class
Segregation
Desegregation
desegregation
Urban schools
Disadvantaged schools
Educational attainment
School holding power
Educational quality
Education policy

4. Narrows a search
Both terms appear in same record
Terms have different meanings
example: education and segregation
AND
OR Broadens a search
Either term may appear in record
Terms have similar meanings
example: primary or elementary

5. Proximity
Phrase
Searching
Can look for multiple endings of a
word or plurals
hous* housing house housesAsterisk
SHIFT+8 on the
keyboard
Allows you to specify how close
you want your terms to appear in
the record
public w1 housing within one word
“public housing”

6. Constructing your
search
Desegregation and poverty
Impact and desegregation and school*
(discrim* or racis*) and public w1 education

7. 5ways to start your
search effectively
1. Pick the correct database
2. Match your terminology to the
database
3. Search more than one database
4. Keep track of your citations in
refworks (ASA) or via databases
(APA)
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get frustrated!
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