SOAN 098: Senior Research Project Master Class (SC)

This guide highlights research tools and strategies for SOAN 098, particularly the literature review. You'll find recommendations for journal article databases, handbooks, finding data, and more.

Exploring topic ideas? 

• Start with Scholarly Conversation & Overviews. You'll find books and articles that provide overviews of scholarship on different topics. You can use these sources to get a sense for how sociologists or anthropologists have thought about a particular issue over time.
• View past SOAN senior theses

You can get help with finding primary and secondary sources, citations, and organizing your research.

Simon Elichko (they/them)
Social Sciences & Data Librarian

• Make an appointment (bit.ly/selichk1)
• Email selichk1@swarthmore.edu
• More options: Help with Research