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This guide will help you identify a theory and locate articles relating to the culture you wish to examine.
By the end of this guide you will be able to:
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Before you begin searching, pick out the main concepts from the assignment details. Good search terms will often be the suggested nouns. In the case of this assignment, most of the key search terms are stated clearly, although you may need to adjust them to retrieve relevant results.
See our Choosing your topic guide to learn how to do this. You can also try some of these suggestions, focusing appropriate combinations:
*Note: This asterisks (*) is a truncation device and will ask the database to search for culture, cultures, and cultural
*Note: This asterisks (*) is a truncation device and will ask the database to search for theory, theories, and theoretical
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Research articles can provide a gateway for the discovery of theorists and theories. Below are two demonstrations of how to begin this type of research.
Theorist Search in PsycINFO
(1 min 18 sec) Recorded February 2016 Transcript
For this course, you can use a database focused on the subject area of Psychology, such as PsycINFO.
Follow the steps below to search for peer-reviewed articles in PsycINFO:
In the first search box type: cultural theor*
In the second search box type: African American
Do you see some articles that will work for your research?
Your results are all articles from peer-reviewed journals. Click the PDF or HTML Full Text links for an article you want to view in full text.
You can repeat these steps in some of the other databases listed on the Psychology page, or
explore different keyword choices to further refine your search.
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