SOC 436racism power and inequality

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Pick your topicHome ownership, racism and inequality

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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.

Organize

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Remember synonyms, related concepts,

and terminology specific to a database

Concept A

Concept B

Connectuse these to construct a search

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Use this to connect different variables. For

example: race and incarceration

and

Use this to search for either term. Always use ( ) around

OR terms. For example: (television or film)

or

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

race, races,

cUse this to search for phrases. For example:

“race relations”

This works for Sociological Abstracts, GenderWatch, JSTOR, One

Search and all databases purchased from ProQuest

Use this to search for phrases in Ebsco Databases .For

example: social w1 dating

Sample Searches“property value” and (race or discrimination)

homeownership and discrimination

Incarceration and race and socioeconomic*

Microaggression and employment

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Ways to SearchSpecialized Research – Statistics- Selected Databases- Databases by Topic

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Ethnic Groups

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Database by Topic.

allows you to find articles in a specific discipline and use more advance

terminology

find the articlePDF - HTML - Full Text - Get it @ CSULB

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Research Recap

• Pick the correct database• Match your terminology to the database• Search more than one database• Keep track of your citations• Contact me for help BEFORE you get frustrated!

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