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Sociology 270 final
This document provides information and instructions for conducting sociological research, including: - It lists databases such as SocIndex, Sociological Abstracts, Psycinfo and ERIC that contain sociological research. - It distinguishes between quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. Quantitative research uses numerical data while qualitative uses methods like interviews and observation. It also discusses mixed methods research. - It provides tips for searching databases, including using keywords, root endings like "suicid*" and phrase searching with quotes. It also discusses citing sources in APA and ASA style.
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Sociology 270 final
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- 2. Contains the databases:SocIndex, Sociological Abstracts, Psycinfo and ERIC ONESEARCH
- 3. Data Sets Surveys Tests andMeasures Quantifying events/occurences Quantitative Contains DATA
- 4. Does not containDATA Qualitative Ethnography Case Studies Observation Interviews Focus groups
- 5. Use both Quantitativeand Qualitative methodologies in the same study Mixed Method
- 6. Datasets are alreadycollected by someone other than you Secondary Data Archival Data
- 7. Photo by Kaysse- Creative Commons Attribution License https://www.flickr.com/photos/29862505@N08 Created with Haiku Deck
- 8. Pick your topic Studentdebt and suicide
- 9. What are themain 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 toconnect different variables. For example: student loans and college students and
- 11. Place your termsin the same search box or student loans or student debt
- 12. Use this tolook for root endings. For example: suicid* looks for suicide, suicidal, suicides
- 13. c Use this tosearch for phrases. For example: “student loans”
- 14. “student loans” andsuicid* Debt* or delinquenc* and “college students” Mental and health and “student debt”
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- 16. So you need to format in APA Citation Generator sin most databases
- 17. Citing with EBSCOHOST Clickhere 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 inASA 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 Clickhere to get the ASA Citation formatted
- 24. Citing with BIBGURU Clickhere 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
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- 28. Changing Case Use thisto change case of entire groups of words. Use when you need to make everything lower case, capitalized or to remove ALL CAPS.
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- 30. Ctrl + T* Creates paragraphs with hanging indents in Microsoft Word. Command for Mac *
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- 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.
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- 34. HANGING INDENT GOOGLE DOCS Moveboth indent icons to .5 Move the first line icon back to its original position
- 35. Photo by JohnCarleton - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License https://www.flickr.com/photos/60717073@N00 Created with Haiku Deck
- 36. Click on GetIt @ CSULB
- 37. Links to theOneSearch Page SIGN IN!!!!
- 38. Takes 48-72 HOURS Wedeliver it to you via link in your email BeachReach
- 39. Photo by Jpek- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License https://www.flickr.com/photos/95126063@N00 Created with Haiku Deck
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