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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Describe useful strategies to employ when searching for literature.
- Describe why sociologists review prior literature and how they organize their literature reviews.
- Identify the main sections contained in scholarly journal articles.
- Identify and describe the major components researchers need to plan for when designing a research project.
In this section, we’ll examine the most typical components that make up a research project, bringing in a few additional components to those we have already discussed. Keep in mind that our purpose at this stage is simply to provide a general overview of research design. The specifics of each of the following components will vary from project to project. Further, the stage of a project at which each of these components comes into play may vary. In later chapters, we will consider more specifically how these components work differently depending on the research method being employed.
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