Search & Find

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Empirical studies

First, learn more about what an empirical study is with the following tutorial:
What is an empirical study?

Learning more about your topic

It can be helpful to learn more about your topic before starting your research so you can gather more keywords and have a better sense of how to search. You can use these reference sources to get more background information on what you will be investigating further in library databases.

Encyclopedia of Gender and Society
Covers topics in gender scholarship within social research. Topics include popular culture, human rights, politics, public policy, social movements, race and ethnicity, marriage, sexuality, and religion.

Encyclopedia of Social Psychology
Covers important concepts in social psychology.