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Are you having problems coming up with a topic?

•Look at published articles in:

  American Sociological Review
  Sociological Focus
      and many others...

•Scan a textbook or reference book for a topic; get an overview plus some possible sources:

  Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
      REF. HM425.B53 2007
  Encyclopedia of Social Theory
    REF. HM425.E47 2005
  Survey of Social Science: Sociology
      Ref HM17.S86 1994

Sociology reference books also available online: Sage Reference

A literature review must do these things:

• be organized around and related directly to the thesis or research question you are developing
• synthesize results into a summary of what is and is not known
• identify areas of controversy in the literature
• formulate questions that need further research