literature review

Examples of literature review in the following topics:

• Reviewing the Literature

  • Sociological researchers review past work in their area of interest and include this "literature review" in the presentation of their research.
  • A literature review is a logical and methodical way of organizing what has been written about a topic by scholars and researchers.
  • Literature reviews can normally be found at the beginning of many essays, research reports, or theses.
  • In writing the literature review, the purpose is to convey what a researcher has learned through a careful reading of a set of articles, books, and other relevant forms of scholarship related to the research question.
  • Good literature reviews require exhaustive research.

• Preparing the Research Report

  • Sociological research publications generally include a literature review, an overview of the methodology followed, the results and an analysis of those results, and conclusions.
  • Like any research paper, sociological research is presented with a literature review, an overview of the methods used in data collection, and analysis, findings, and conclusions.
  • A literature review is a creative way of organizing what has been written about a topic by scholars and researchers.
  • You will find literature reviews at the beginning of many essays, research reports, or theses.
  • In writing the literature review, your purpose is to convey to your reader what you have learned through a careful reading of a set of articles related to your research question.

• Elements of Socialization

  • To what extent human behavior is biologically determined vs. learned is still an open question in the study of human behavior, but recent reviews of biological, genetic, neuroscience, and psychological literatures suggest that culture can influence biology and vice versa (e.g., nurture becomes nature through processes wherein learned responses and behaviors feed the development of the brain and the activation of genetic potential).

• The Scientific Method

  • Once an experiment is complete, a researcher determines whether the results (or data) gathered are what was predicted or assumed in the literature beforehand.
  • For this reason, scientific journals use a process of peer review, in which scientists' manuscripts are submitted by editors of scientific journals to (usually one to three) fellow (usually anonymous) scientists familiar with the field for evaluation.
  • This serves to keep the scientific literature free of unscientific work, helps to cut down on obvious errors, and generally otherwise improves the quality and consistency of the scientific literature, but may also lead to the silencing or delay of new and / or controversial scientific findings.
  • Sometimes peer review inhibits the circulation of unorthodox work, and at other times may be too permissive.
  • The peer review process is not always successful, but has been very widely adopted by the scientific community.

• Introduction to kinds of graphs

  • Let's take a moment to review some of this terminology in a little more detail.

• Introduction to visualizing similarity and distance

  • Both of these tools are widely used in non-network analysis; there are large and excellent literatures on the many important complexities of using these methods.

• Preface

  • Mark Riddle has added expertise in the statistical modeling of network data, study questions and problems, and connections to a variety of empirical literature that uses the techniques discussed here.

• Introduction

  • Modern social movements became possible through the wider dissemination of literature and increased mobility of labor due to the industrialization of societies.

• Religion and Social Support

  • A review of 498 peer-review academic studies revealed that a large majority of them showed a positive correlation between religious commitment and higher levels of perceived well-being of self-esteem.
  • Finally, as signaled in a recent review of 850 research papers, the majority of well-conducted studies suggest that higher levels of religious involvement are positively associated with indicators of psychological well-being (life satisfaction, happiness, positive affect, and higher morale).

• Ethics

  • To ensure the safety of participants, most universities maintain an institutional review board (IRB) that reviews studies that include human participants and ensures ethical rigor.
  • Several studies that, when brought to light, led to the introduction of ethical principles guiding human subjects research and Institutional Review Boards to ensure compliance with those principles, are worth noting, including the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, in which 399 impoverished black men with syphilis were left untreated to track the progress of the disease and Nazi experimentation on humans.