Reference Sources
Getting Started with Social Science Research
- Follow your interests. Rely on course materials, reports on recent studies, and exploration of reference sources.
- Look for puzzles, surprises, and data that challenge common assumptions about human behavior.
- Map out the relationships between the concepts within your topic.
- Search databases for literature on your topic or for existing tests and measures related to your topic.
- Chart out the explanations that have been offered in the literature for the puzzle or problem that interests you.
- Find your own approach to your topic and situate it in conversation with the literature.
Subject Guide |
Subjects: sociology and social sciences |



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