This document provides tips and guidance for students taking a sociology course on classic sociological theory. It discusses choosing a topic related to socialism and Cuba for a thesis. It offers search terms and variables to characterize the topic. It also provides tips on finding supporting evidence from academic articles on socialism and avoiding common citation errors in papers.

1. Classic Sociological Theory
Sociology 356
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2. Pick your topic
Socialism and Cuba
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3. 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.

4. Use this to connect
different variables. For
example: black and
white
and

5. Use this to search for
either term. For example:
television or film
or

6. Use this to look for root
endings. For example:
rac* looks for racial,
race, races,

7. sample searches
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8. socialism and Castro
socialism and embargo and cuba*
“proletariat revolution” and cuba

9. Supporting evidence
articles about socialism
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10. TIPS
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11. Finding Articles about a theory
Socialism
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13. find articles
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14. FULL TEXT
PDF
BEACHREACH
GETTING THE
FULL TEXT.
GET IT
@CSULB

15. If the record isn’t full text
Click on Get@CSULB to
determine availability

16. Get it @CSULB box pops up

17. BeachReach
Takes 48-72 hours to receive the article electronically –
alert sent to your email when it arrives

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

19. 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 is not italicized
4. The ending page number for your article is missing
5. There is no hanging indent
Before

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

21. Creates paragraphs with
hanging indents in
Microsoft Word. For mac
use Command + T

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