sociology introduction to various research methods

1. Sociology
270
Tiffini Travis

2. Contains the databases: SocIndex, Sociological Abstracts, Psycinfo and ERIC
ONESEARCH

3. Data Sets
Surveys
Tests and Measures
Quantifying events/occurences
Quantitative
Contains DATA

4. Does not contain DATA
Qualitative
Ethnography
Case Studies
Observation
Interviews
Focus groups

5. Use both Quantitative and
Qualitative methodologies
in the same study
Mixed Method

6. Datasets are already collected
by someone other than you
Secondary Data
Archival Data

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8. Pick your topic
Student debt and suicide

9. What are the main issues?
Think of terms and variables that
characterize your thesis topic.
Think about what discipline in addition to
sociology would research your topic.
Think of what type of research is required.

10. Use this to connect different
variables. For example:
student loans and college students
and

11. Place your terms in the same
search box
or
student loans or student debt

12. Use this to look for root
endings. For example:
suicid* looks for suicide, suicidal, suicides

13. c
Use this to search for
phrases. For example:
“student loans”

14. “student loans” and suicid*
Debt* or delinquenc* and “college students”
Mental and health and “student debt”

15. DATABASES
LET’S SEARCH

16. So you
need
to
format
in APA
Citation
Generator
s in most
databases

17. Citing with EBSCOHOST
Click here to get
the APA Citation
formatted

18. Common Citation Errors. APA
1. Part of the citation is in ALL CAPS
2. Every Word Of The Article Title Is Capitalized
3. The journal title is not italicized
4. The ending page number for your article is missing
5. There is no hanging indent
Before

19. Fixing the Errors. APA
1. Change any words that are all caps
2. Make the appropriate words lower case Italicize
the Journal Title
3. Look at the PDF of your document and find the
ending page number
4. Create a hanging indent
After

20. So you
need to
format
in ASA
Sociological
Abstracts
Or
BibGURU

21. Common Citation Errors. ASA
1. Part of the citation is in ALL CAPS
2. The journal title is not italicized
3. The ending page number for your article is missing
4. Includes an overly long URL from the database
5. There is no hanging indent
Before

22. Fixing the Errors. ASA
1. Change any words that are all caps
2. Italicize the Journal Title
3. Look at the PDF to find the ending page number
4. Remove URL (double check with professor first!)
5. Create a hanging indent
After
.

23. Citing with PROQUEST
Click here to get
the ASA Citation
formatted

24. Citing with BIBGURU
Click here to get to the ASA
Citation generator when not
using ProQuest databases

25. Common Citation Errors. ASA
1. Part of the citation is in ALL CAPS
2. The journal title is not italicized
3. The ending page number for your article is missing
4. There is no hanging indent
Before

26. Fixing the Errors. ASA
1. Change any words that are all caps
2. Italicize the Journal Title
3. Look at the PDF of your document and find the
ending page number
4. Create a hanging indent
After

27. Citation Formatting
Microsoft Word

28. Changing Case
Use this to change case of entire
groups of words. Use when you need
to make everything lower case,
capitalized or to remove ALL CAPS.

29. Changing Case

30. Ctrl + T *
Creates paragraphs with hanging
indents in Microsoft Word.
Command for Mac
*

31. Citation Formatting
Google Docs

32. Format > Text > Capitalization
Use this to change case of entire groups of
words. Use when you need to make
everything lower case, capitalized or to
remove ALL CAPS.

33. Changing Case

34. HANGING INDENT
GOOGLE DOCS
Move both indent icons to .5
Move the first line icon back to its original position

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